Mother is a verb, not a noun. Shonda Rhimes More Quotes by Shonda Rhimes More Quotes From Shonda Rhimes I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman. Shonda Rhimes confused black inspiring Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are. Shonda Rhimes saws people ideas Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life. Shonda Rhimes brilliant succeed mean There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone. Because what if you learn that you need love and then you don't have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This, it could go on forever. Shonda Rhimes pain love-is fall Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in. Shonda Rhimes fence boundaries people Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do. Shonda Rhimes titles verbs mother I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV. Shonda Rhimes people looks world I read a lot of studies about the fact that there is a bias in the way health care is doled out, down to the fact that most medical studies are done on men, not women, so most dosages are planned for men, not women, and on and on. And more than that, women's pain is gauged differently and their complaints are received differently. And the idea that there's a place where you can go where everything is geared toward you, as a woman, is great. But it's a shame that we need to find places that are "safe" when the world, the whole world, should be a safe place. Shonda Rhimes pain men ideas Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints. Shonda Rhimes ceilings running inspirational You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone. Shonda Rhimes not-alone At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need. Shonda Rhimes distance space hurt I think the point of America, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point. The fact that I've never had to use a Planned Parenthood, the fact that I've never been in need of medical services I couldn't afford or didn't have access to, doesn't mean I shouldn't be concerned about the fact that other women don't have that access. Shonda Rhimes mean america thinking I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself. Shonda Rhimes agents inspiring television You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things. Shonda Rhimes horrible shoes stories It's been a long time since Roe v. Wade, and I do think most people are able to have respect for other people's choices. Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses. Shonda Rhimes long people thinking When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier, it makes the world healthier, it makes the economy healthier. Shonda Rhimes helping people world You literally can shoot someone in the face on television and a 7-year-old can watch it. But you can't show the slight of a man's hip, because dear God, someone might think of sex. 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