Simone de Beauvoir

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.