Look, if you ask a child, Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath, theyll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think its really important that children dont feel their parents emotional lives depend on their success. – Ayelet Waldman
Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sisters head using alginating plaster. – J. J. Abrams
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not. – Carl Van Vechten
I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my moms only instruction was You just go in and pull the big Republican lever. Thats my welcome to adulthood. Shes like, No, dont even read it. Just pull the Republican lever. – Tina Fey
