"The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends." ― Shirley Knight Topic(s): Women More From Shirley Knight "There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about." "This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can’t see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me." "My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater." More In Women "Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it’s not real at all."― Shirley MacLaine "A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they’re thinking about is how they look."― Emma Thompson "Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there’s this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I’m in the middle ground – I think women in their thirties are taken seriously."― Alanis Morissette