Mercedes Ruehl Quotes

"Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it."
- Mercedes Ruehl
(Related: Life, Necessity)

"But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted."
- Mercedes Ruehl
(Related: Mother, Being, Example, News)

"I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain."
- Mercedes Ruehl
(Related: People, Choice)

"In this business, you never say no to anything."
- Mercedes Ruehl
(Related: Business)

"You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name."
- Mercedes Ruehl
(Related: First, Name)

"I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with."
- Mercedes Ruehl

"Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity."
- Mercedes Ruehl
(Related: Society, Time, Identity, Question)

"Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this."
- Mercedes Ruehl
(Related: Nature, Will)

"We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand."
- Mercedes Ruehl

"Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good."
- Mercedes Ruehl
(Related: Writing)