My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

I'm really happy in my own skin.

There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

Don't go; don't go! Oh! Edna, stay with me.

She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

It is bizarre to treat all differences as oppositions,

I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much - so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.

I would give my life for my children, but I wouldn’t give myself. I can’t make it more clear; it’s only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me

The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

You are the embodiment of selfishness.

Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate.

His manner invited easy confidence. The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging woman was concerned.

They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.

By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

If he were to say, 'Here, Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours', I should laugh at you both.