It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage -- the surest means to success, the surest course to failure. (p. 72)


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I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. ...
HILARY DUFF
I always look forward to the holidays because I love dressing up in festive, shimmery evening dresse...
HILARY RHODA
I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think ...
HILARY ROSEN
Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and ke...
HILARY RHODA
Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close...
HILARY RHODA
When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial ...
HILARY MANTEL
Peanut Butter M&Ms in the fridge, I always have a giant bag. Every cookie and candy I put in the...
HILARY RHODA
Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place ...
HILARY DUFF
Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
HILARY SWANK
I feel the best after a workout - I'm sweaty and exhausted, but it also gives me an energy I rea...
HILARY RHODA
The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inc...
HILARY MANTEL
He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a...
HILARY MANTEL
I love that Euro-pop dance music, but with girl power. I also listen to Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. ...
HILARY DUFF
You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear...
HILARY MANTEL
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have t...
HILARY MANTEL
Like going to my favorite restaurant, it can sometimes get hard. I just can't go to the mall.
HILARY DUFF
Who are you?" I asked.
"You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours."

~Clea / Sage, p...
HILARY DUFF
In dreams, and in love, there are no impossibilities.
HILARY DUFF
I mean, obviously I don't have anything against it, because look at my boyfriend, ... But I think I ...
HILARY DUFF
Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.
HILARY DUFF
I've had a very unique path that's different from everybody else's. I was never a dater....
HILARY DUFF
I am concerned by recent developments in Uganda and I have decided to cut 15 million pounds from our...
HILARY BENN
What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they fee...
HILARY MANTEL
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historica...
HILARY MANTEL
If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, ...
HILARY MANTEL
I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I...
HILARY SWANK
I could do half a pull-up when I first started training, ... I literally, I tried to pull myself up,...
HILARY SWANK
I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this [on winning an Oscar 2005]
HILARY SWANK
Being a teenager was a horrid time.
HILARY SWANK
One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.
HILARY SWANK
I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack ...
HILARY DUFF
It's heartbreaking to see the devastation on TV. People are missing family members, and they have ab...
HILARY DUFF
I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anyth...
HILARY DUFF
I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull ...
HILARY DUFF
When I was younger I was attracted to gay guys and they were "attracted" to me. I don't exactly know...
HILARY WINSTON
There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world....
HILARY WINSTON
Caddy came home on Friday evening. Perfectly Harmless Patrick brought her in his battered old car......
HILARY MCKAY
There is a continued need for more helicopter capacity, to move in the inaccessible areas. The terra...
HILARY BENN
Every year up to three million children die from diseases that could be prevented by vaccines that a...
HILARY BENN
These deaths are largely avoidable and preventable.
HILARY BENN
Delays in getting aid to those who need it cost lives. That is why we need to ensure we have the mea...
HILARY BENN
It is a very, very important deal. But there are other countries represented on the World Bank board...
HILARY BENN
The government of Sudan has should be under no doubt whatsoever - we (the international community) a...
HILARY BENN
Why use a night-lite if you live in the darkness?
HILARY WILLIAMS