Cybill Shepherd Quotes

And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me ... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing.

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

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

I was born and bred to be a great flirt.

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

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.

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.

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

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy ... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

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.

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.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

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'm afraid to start plastic surgery. And my breasts are so versatile now, I can wear them down, up, and side to side.

When someone is beautiful, that gives people an excuse to go out of their way to be mean, as if someone who's beautiful isn't really deep, doesn't really hurt and isn't really a human being.

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.

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

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.

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.

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.

I'm not lost,I'm just in between places I recognize.

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.