I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters – Im from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! – Shirley Manson
Ive never had a divorce, but Ive seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that cant write about it. I take on their sorrow, so Im able to kind of express it, or their joy. – Dolly Parton
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. – Bill Murray
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Toms Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. – Carl Clinton Van Doren
