“The way I was brought up, I wasn’t allowed to wear black, and I wasn’t allowed to wear bikinis. And I was only allowed to wear two shades of lipstick–peach or pink. It was all about what was `appropriate.'”
–actress Reese Witherspoon (above), in Vanity Fair
“The problem with the Kabbalah Centre right now is in distinguishing between a religion and a superstition. A religion empowers you, but a superstition weakens you. A superstition makes you very dependent on the group–you need to take their courses, ask them all your private questions.”
–author and rabbi Shmuley Boteach, about the Beverly Hills, Calif., center that has attracted celebrities such as Madonna, in Elle
“Time … does not heal all wounds; [it] makes it easier to function on a daily basis. I’d cut my own life in half to have my mother back.”
–CNN/ABC News legal analyst Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, 35, whose mother died when Newsom was 10, in Harper’s Bazaar
“Men and women do think differently. When you have multiple perspectives on an issue, you can make better decisions.”
–Lambert Hsu, one of three men who has joined the YWCA chapter in San Diego, one of at least four YWCA chapters to have men on its board, as quoted by The Associated Press
