Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Uma Thurman - Page 2

It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.

I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.

On a fundamental level - I know so many women in their 30s who didn't get married, or they did and it didn't work out, or they didn't have children because they were trying to get their careers going, or because they were expected to be independent, plus have a family. They didn't feel secure enough.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.

I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.

Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.

If you're not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.

As one does with a first child, I found out that my baby could roll by hearing the sound of her body hit the ground at 4 a.m. and obviously, for any new parent, that is the most horrifying thing that could happen, right? You're exhausted and you take your tiny little baby out and you put them on the bed to change diapers before nursing and you turn around and you discover... my baby can roll! And you think you're going to die.

~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date.