How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. – John Gay
For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldnt. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured. – Kelly McGillis
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. – John Boyd Orr
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often its a role thats underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in. – Harvey Fierstein
