There is nothing glamorous about death.

The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Kahlil Gibran, "My Soul Is Heavy

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Gayle Forman

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Sigmund Freud

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Frank Dane

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

William Gilbert

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces.

Judith Viorst

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.

Janet Street-Porter

It means 'Shadowhunters: looking better in black than the widows of our enemies since 1234

Cassandra Clare

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Sammy Cahn

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

William Penn