One thing I found hard to get scripted was the size of her ego. Her ego was so huge. She was about being the queen, and everybody had better treat her as the queen. I am not like that.


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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
HELEN KELLER
Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowled...
HELEN KELLER
Dreams show you that you have the power...
HELEN SCHUCMAN
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn...
HELEN ROWLAND
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
HELEN KELLER
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the...
HELEN KELLER
What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction afte...
HELEN ROWLAND
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can...
HELEN KELLER
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman...
HELEN ROWLAND
I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging...
HELEN HUNT
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are mad...
HELEN ROWLAND
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
HELEN ROWLAND
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but...
HELEN ROWLAND
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nat...
HELEN ROWLAND
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whol...
HELEN KELLER
I know that faith made my life possible and that of many others like me... Reason hardly warranted A...
HELEN KELLER
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with th...
HELEN HAYES
Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
HELEN NIELSEN
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
HELEN MACINNESS
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of ano...
HELEN KELLER
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ...
HELEN ROWLAND
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a r...
HELEN ROWLAND
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
HELEN KELLER
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was ...
HELEN KELLER
Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have live...
HELEN KELLER
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th...
HELEN KELLER
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
HELEN KELLER
If you rest, you rust.
HELEN HAYES