“The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, ...” — Christine Quinn Quote

“The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.”

“There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.”

“I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.”

“I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'”

“I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.”

“Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.”