Cybill Shepherd Quotations

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.

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

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.

I was born and bred to be a great flirt

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

I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

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.

Some people say Im attractive. I say I agree.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

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

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.

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.

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.

I was searching myself to find something that would help me with all of my symptoms. Then I went to my doctor, and she suggested that I try this.

I would very much like to go on her talk show. Maybe not a cooking show. She's got all the hot grease and stuff.

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

One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left.

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'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.

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

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

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

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

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

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

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

One of my ex-husbands thought I had a breast job. They looked bigger. I just got the proper lingerie.

It's a great story. Even though we may think we know everything, Martha was not particularly a public person. We didn't know much about her personal or private thoughts. It was an opportunity to find some emotion in a different way than what we've seen.

I never thought I'd get a chance to play Martha Stewart again,