“My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.”

“As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.”