Reese Witherspoon
I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy.
My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.
I literally think I look bad in every picture.
I love to sing around the house and in the car, but my daughter hates it.
Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular, embarrassing old mom.
I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.Collection: Believe
We’re more than just our dresses.Collection: Dresses
When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.Collection: Inspirational
One honest voice is louder than a crowd.Collection: Voice
There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.Collection: Heart
Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I’m a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter what, can give you the confidence you need when you feel like you’ve got nothing to offer.Collection: Simple
Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.Collection: Opportunity
I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.Collection: Jobs
If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.Collection: Kids
Lord knows, everyday is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.Collection: Years
It's important to do things that scare you to death!Collection: Life
You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.Collection: Sunday
I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.Collection: Ignorance
As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.Collection: Jobs
Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.Collection: Giving
I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, I'm stupid, isn't it cute? makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK.Collection: Cute
I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.Collection: Memories
I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.Collection: Good Life
Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.Collection: Art
I don't want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you're wearing feels reductive.Collection: Beautiful
Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?Collection: Entrepreneur
A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.Collection: Illustration
I'd always ask my grandma, who was so, so smart, why she didn't work, and she would explain that her parents didn't approve of her working after she had children. She didn't feel like she had choices.Collection: Children
Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.Collection: Art
My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, "Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do."Collection: Mom
You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.Collection: Teenager
There's something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.Collection: People
I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women.Collection: Daughter
My husband is my biggest supporter on earth. He encourages me to put myself out in the world in ways that feel scary, and he's like, "I'm always gonna catch you. I'm always gonna be there for you." My supportive mother and family. Honey, it's such a village.Collection: Mother
I always say that it's very important not to blame one person. You have to own whatever part of it you're responsible for. It takes a lot of soul-searching. It's important to go through that, because hopefully you won't repeat yourself.Collection: Soul
God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?Collection: Country
Never drink to feel better, only drink to feel even better.Collection: Feel Better
I played a lawyer in a movie so many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.Collection: Thinking
There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don’t have time for hate or negativity in my life. There’s no room for it.Collection: Hate
I like Yoga. I run. I go hiking. I'm very active. I like being outside.Collection: Running
To be courageous , you have to have an army of people holding you.Collection: Army
You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.Collection: Son
I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.Collection: Mean
I always let my husband read the script so he knows what's about to happen to his wife. When I played Cheryl Strayed in Wild, I'd get really mad about certain things, I'd say really profound things, and I'd curse out of nowhere. He'd say, "Are you you, or are you Cheryl?"Collection: Husband
We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.Collection: Artist
I was all of these women. I've been a young mom; I've been a divorcée; I've been a single mom. I've been the working mom versus the nonworking mom.Collection: Mom
I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.Collection: People
Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular embarrassing old mom.Collection: Mom
I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.Collection: Movie