Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage,… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“So you see, George Lucas is a sadist. But like any abused child, wearing a metal bikini, chained to a giant slug… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“I don’t just want you to like me, I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you’ve ever encountered. I… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know,… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
“I thought you might supply some tenderness I lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away and now… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
“So it stood to reason that if I could disappoint my own father—if I couldn’t get my own father to love me enough to… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share
