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Shonda Rhimes Quotes

Total quotes: 50
“Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need. He's very dreamy but he's not the sun, you are.”
— Dr. Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy, Season 10: Fear
Tagged: Wants, Needs, Sun, Eclipse, Power
“I don't think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible.”
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Tagged: Having It All, Career, Diets, Busy, Women, feminism
“Gladiators don't get to have feelings. We rush into battle. We're soldiers. We get hurt in the fight we suck it up and we hold the line and we don't question.”
— Harrison Wright, Scandal, Season 2: Nobody Likes Babies
Tagged: Gladiators, Battle, Soldiers, Fight, hurt
“ I am now broken. I'm not me. I'm forever changed. I'm undone. A broken heart is a broken heart. To take a measure is cruelty.”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 4: The State of the Union
Tagged: broken, Forever Changed, Undone, Broken Heart, cruel
“Olivia: Burying yourself in work isn't always the best thing when you lose someone.

Fitz: Running away isn't the best thing either.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: Like Father, Like Daughter
Tagged: Work, Running Away, Loss, Distractions
“Dr. Derek Shepherd: I was drunk, vulnerable, and good-looking, and you took advantage.

Dr. Meredith Grey: I was the one who was drunk, and you are not that good-looking.”
— Dr. Derek Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy, Season 1: A Hard Day's Night
Tagged: Drunk, Good-Looking, Taking Advantage, Date Rape
“Motherhood means I'm aways a little bit awake, a little bit alert at all times.”
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Tagged: Motherhood
“Time waits for no man. Time heals all wounds. All any of us wants is more time. Time to stand up. Time to grow up. Time to let go. Time.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 3: Time Has Come Today
“At some point you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out; they fence you in. Life is messy, that's how we're made.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 1: The First Cut is the Deepest
Tagged: boundaries, Fences, Decisions
“Olivia: I'm apolitical you know that.

Cyrus: Is your vagina apolitical?”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 2: Top of the Hour
Tagged: Apolitical, Vagina, Comeback
“All you can see is God and country and you're so busy being a patriot that you forget to be a person.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 3: Ride, Sally, Ride
Tagged: Patriot, Person, Living, country, God
“Where’s the liver? I lost the liver! Have you seen it? It’s... it’s liver shaped.”
— Dr. Maggie Pierce, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Judgement Day
Tagged: Liver, lost, shaped, Frantic
“Olivia Pope doesn't move Heaven and Earth and further corrupt the justice system unless she knows at the end of the day she can put on the white hat and ride out of town.”
— David Rosen, Scandal, Season 2: Hunting Season
Tagged: Justice, Corruption, Escape, Fix Things
“ It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 3: The Price of Free and Fair Elections
Tagged: scandal, Shut It Down, fixed, Handled, Problem
“You can do this job and keep your integrity. Just be honest. Be yourself.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: It’s Good to Be Kink
Tagged: Job, Work, Integrity, honest, Be yourself
“Jake: How does a guy facing a murder charge even get bail?

Quinn: By being rich and white.”
— Quinn Perkins, Scandal, Season 5: Yes
Tagged: Jail, Bail, Murder, rich, white, Privilege
“A boy the size of a ten-pound bowling ball is working its way out of my body. Can you get me something for that? Can you get me a new vagina?”
— Dr. Miranda Bailey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: It's the End of the World
Tagged: Childbirth, Vagina, Pregnancy
“I am your Chief Resident. What does that mean? It means that I am your chief. Your boss, your commander, your overlord, your queen. It means when I speak, you listen.”
— Dr. Jo Wilson, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Out of Nowhere
Tagged: chief, Meaning, Respect, Command, boss, commander, Queen
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”
— Shonda Rhimes, 6 Inspiring Love Quotes From Shonda Rhimes
Tagged: feminism, strength, Courage, Women
“And because I must arrive on display, I am forced into a ludicrous gown so stylish that if I move too much, I may be sliced and stabbed to death by my undergarments. Oh, how joyful it is to be a lady.”
— Young Queen Charlotte, Queen Charlotte, Miniseries: Queen to Be
“I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard.”
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Tagged: Smart, talented, Hard Work, H4D-47
“You wanted to know who I am? This is who I am. Defiance is who I am. This is me. This is who you married. This is who you love. You made a choice. You did this. This is the man you are. And guess what? I love you anyway. Because that is the man I am.”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 2: Molly, You in Danger, Girl
Tagged: Defiance, Marriage, Love, Relationships, Man, Choice
“Press secretaries can't cry! It's, like, a rule!”
— Abby Whelan, Scandal, Season 4: Baby Made a Mess
Tagged: Press Secretary, cry, Rules, Expectations
“All right, people are dying. It is your job to save their lives.”
— Dr. April Kepner, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Caught Somewhere in Time
Tagged: Dying, Job, save, Lives
“At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines... that are way too dangerous to cross.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 1: The First Cut is the Deepest
Tagged: Decisions, boundaries, danger, Crossing Lines
“A princess never chases a chicken.”
— Queen Clarisse Renaldi, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Tagged: princess, chicken
“This doesn't make us even. Not even close. And it won't stop me from coming after you, guns blazing, both barrels, if it looks, as I strongly suspect, that you were involved in illegal activity, or worse, if you try to screw me again. In that case, God help you.”
— David Rosen, Scandal, Season 2: Truth or Consequences
Tagged: Anger, illegal, Coming For You, suspect
“I will take every penny he has in the bank and every dollar of political capital that he has in this town. I will court feminist groups and mothers groups and religious groups. I will bury him. And I will dance on his grave. And then? I will run for office.”
— Mellie Grant, Scandal, Season 2: Nobody Likes Babies
Tagged: Revenge, Feminist, mothers, Bury, Dance On His Grave, Office
“We are the devil. I am actually the devil.”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 3: A Door Marked Exit
Tagged: devil, Admit It, fact
“ I'm working. I'm gladiating.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: The Key
Tagged: Working, Gladiator, Catchphrase
“If you want to be a shark, be a shark. Don’t apologize for it.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Get off on the Pain
Tagged: Shark, Identity, Apologies, go confidently, Metaphor Examples
“I dream of love, not fondness.”
— Mia Thermopolis, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Tagged: Love, Fond, Dreams
“The first time I kissed my wife, she wasn't my wife then, she was just this girl in a bar. But when we kissed, it was like, I gotta tell you, it was like I'd never kissed any other woman before. It was like my first kiss. The right kiss.”
— Dr. Derek Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy, Season 11: How to Save a Life
Tagged: first kiss, Kissing, romance
“Women like going to a nice restaurant, it's a universal truth.”
— Harrison Wright, Scandal, Season 2: All Roads Lead to Fitz
Tagged: Women, Stereotype, universal truth, claim
“This. Is. War. There is no script. You can choose the battle, but if you send me out, I'm fighting my way. I don't play. I don't hide. I don't hold back or look for exits... and I sure as hell don't lean on the ropes and take it. I swing because that's me. That's who I am. That is how I gladiate.”
— Marcus Walker, Scandal, Season 5: You Got Served
Tagged: War, Battle, Fight, Swinging, Tough
“Every day, I compete with death, and more often than not- I win.”
— Dr. Owen Hunt, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Tagged: Compete, Death, Win
“Okay. Entertainment industry, time to stop using the phrases 'Smart Strong Women' and 'Strong Female Leads'. There are no Dumb Weak Women. A smart strong woman is just a WOMAN. Also? 'Women' are not a TV trend -- we're half the planet.”
— Shonda Rhimes
Tagged: Women, Gender Equality, feminism, Women Empowerment, smash the patriarchy
“It is half past Swagger O'Clock and I'm late for my applause.”
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Tagged: Confidence, Swagger
“I lean so far in that sometimes I'm lying down.”
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Tagged: Lean In, Funny
“Do you think I want to look at you? That I wouldn't rather be looking at my wife? I'm married, I have responsibilities! She doesn't drive me crazy! She doesn't make it impossible for me to feel normal! She doesn't make me sick to my stomach thinking about my veterinarian touching her with his hands! Oh, man, I would give anything not to be looking at you.”
— Dr. Derek Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Losing My Religion
Tagged: Responsibilities, married, Wife
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