Cybill Shepherd

“No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.”

“When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.”

“'Taxi Driver' was one of the happiest moments of my career.”

“Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.”

“It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.”

“You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.”

“כולנו יודעים שנכנסנו למלחמה בעיראק בתואנות שווא, למשך זמן רב צ'ייני לא איפשר לפרסם תמונות שצולמו שם, כדי שהציבור האמריקאי לא יידע עם מה אנחנו אמורים בכלל להתמודד. השאלה עכשיו היא איך יוצאים משם.”

“היה כינוס למען זכויות של נשים עניות שעברו דברים מחרידים כדי לעשות הפלה. גלוריה סטיינם פנתה אליי, הבנתי שזה לא בסדר שאני לא עושה שום דבר למען הקהילה הזאת, והסכמתי להיות הדוברת של התנועה למען הפלות מלאכותיות.”

“אני לא בטוחה שנדחקתי לטלוויזיה, פשוט היו שם תפקידים טובים לנשים והיו תפקידים טובים בשבילי. אני לא חושבת שנכון לומר ש'נאלצתי' לעשות את זה.”

“זה האופי של העבודה הזאת. זו רכבת הרים, פעם אתה למעלה ולפעמים יש תקופות שאתה לא עובד בכלל. למדתי שאין ברירה אלא לקחת סיכונים והחלטתי ללמוד להגיד 'כן' תמיד, רק כדי לעבוד.”

“With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.”

“I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.”

“I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas.”

“They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery.”

“I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.”

“Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.”

“No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.”

“I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.”

“Some people say I'm attractive. I say I agree.”

“My home is different from my mother's, because hers is filled with beautiful objects that I was always afraid of breaking. My home is the opposite. Bring on the kids, the dogs, the parties - there's nothing that's so important it can't be broken.”