A biography for Patricia Heatonhasn’t been written yet.
“When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.”
“There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.”
“I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.”
“My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.”
“A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.”
“You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.”
“I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.”
“My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.”
“I'm not good at accepting help.”
“I was not an easy kid.”
“From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.”
“I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.”
“I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.”
“This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.”
“What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.”
“I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.”
“I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.”
“I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.”
“Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.”
“I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.”