“[to Gomez] I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It's just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.”— Paul Rudnick, Morticia Addams, Anjelica Huston, imdb.com
“[to himself, regarding his life] Am I not supposed to have what I want?”— Alvin Sargent, Peter Parker / Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire, imdb.com
“Agent Smith: I want everything. Morpheus: Would that include a bullet from this gun?”— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Morpheus, Laurence Fishburne, imdb.com
“You have everything and you have so much of it.”— Kater Gordon, Peggy Olson, Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
“I don't think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible.”— Shonda Rhimes, amazon.com
“Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means that I am failing in another area of my life.”— Shonda Rhimes, amazon.com
“This isn’t about what’s fair. It’s about what we can afford. And we can’t afford this. We can’t afford to pretend it’s fine that everything we do or think or wear or say yes or no to is somehow wrong. We can’t afford to act like it’s okay that ‘Girls can do anything!’ got translated somewhere along…”— Kristi Coulter, thoughtcatalog.com
“This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist...It’s the thinking of a toddler.”— ariel levy, mobile.nytimes.com
“I kind of hate the phrase ‘having it all,’ but I think you can have … You can have a lot. Not everything. But a lot. And so part of being able to do that is making the choices upfront about which of the pieces of the pie are the most important to you right now. There are other times in my life when…”— Kathryn Minshew, nymag.com