Shonda Rhimes

"Love is a choice we can make every day."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Motherhood means I’m always a little bit awake, a little bit alert at all times."

- Shonda Rhimes

"You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone."

- Shonda Rhimes

"“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”"

- Shonda Rhimes

"There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: there are no rules. Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be."

- Shonda Rhimes

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

""You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.""

- Shonda Rhimes

"You don't have a job? Get one. Any job! Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Do something until you can do something else."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Be a doer, not a dreamer."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Yearning for a life of passion and purpose? Start doing things that ignite your excitement."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Be brave. Be amazing. Be worthy."

- Shonda Rhimes

""Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.""

- Shonda Rhimes

"It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Dreams are lovely but they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Dreams are lovely. But they are dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral. Pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"If I don't poke my head out of my shell and show people who I am, all anyone will ever think I am is my shell."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Gentle reader, may you never be lucky. I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don’t call me lucky. Call me a badass."

- Shonda Rhimes

"There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: There are no rules."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Devote a slice of your energies toward making the world suck less every week."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Twelve years later the memories of those nights, of that sleep deprivation, still make me rock back and forth a little bit. You want to torture someone? Hand them an adorable baby they love who doesn’t sleep."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power."

- Shonda Rhimes