I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

As a teenager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

I want to be the best quarterback at Texas Tech, the best quarterback in the Big 12.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was something that was just mine. But when I was 20 or 21, I started writing songs and felt...

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.

In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere, and a rush to invest in...

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.

I like sharing my family with my fans, but my son hates it. Like, I am literally blocked on all his social media.

Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.

The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.

The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic - like, every German author, and then I have a couple of books by this ex-boyfriend of mine there. I just want to make sure that he's not too...

Quince may resemble pears and apples, but unlike their fruit brethren, raw quince are inedibly tannic and sour. This means you do have to cook them, but the transformation is dramatic, and well worth...

I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen, and Alice Walker.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the...

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

Writing is not a genteel profession; it’s quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately,...

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

Instead of diving further back to the fandom as a child, more recently when I was training as an independent wrestler, that is really when women's wrestling took to the forefront and really started...

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.