Michelle Shocked Quotes

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

Michelle Shocked

• Growing
• Woman

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Woman

• My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn't safe for me to eat or consume, it's probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Woman
  • Among
  • Acquaintances

• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Growing
  • Always
  • Feel

• We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Rest
  • Woman

• I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Woman
  • Person
  • Grey

• The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Woman

• Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Faithful

• Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Job
  • Black

• I related to 'A Clockwork Orange' in a personal way. I was a bit of a thug growing up. It's taken some reform for me. Thank God for artistry and creativity as an outlet.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Up
  • God
  • Growing

• I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• I grew up in a really small town: LaGrange, Georgia. There weren't a lot of creative outlets there, so I did local castings.

  

  Elijah Kelley
  • Up
  • Small

• When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

  

  Michelle Shocked
  • Growing
  • Woman