“I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely aga...” — Patricia Richardson Quote

“I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.”

“I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.”

“When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.”

“Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.”

“I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.”

“Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.”

“We must reinstate reproductive care and address the alarming impact of abortion restrictions on women's health in Texas and nationwide, so as to prevent a woman's miscarriage after 6 weeks of pregnancy from being viewed as a suspicious event and her body viewed as a crime scene.”

“Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.”

“I'm on the record saying that I would not sign the federal abortion ban. It should be left to the states.”

“Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.”

“There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.”