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Shonda Rhimes Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“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
“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, The Year of Yes
Tagged: Being Yourself, Happiness, Self-Worth
“Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling, not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we can step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.”
— Dr. Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy, Season 10: Fear
Tagged: Change, Fear, unexpected, Bravery
“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
“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
“Okay, here it is, your choice...it's simple, her or me, and I'm sure she is really great. But Derek, I love you, in a really, really big 'pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window', unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Bring the Pain
Tagged: Pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me, Choices, Ultimatums, Love
“Change…We don’t like it, we fear it. But we can’t stop it from coming. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind. It hurts to grow. Anybody who tells you it doesn’t, is lying. But here’s the truth: Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes, change is good. Sometimes, change is… everything.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy Season 4: A Change Is Gonna Come
Tagged: Change, Sudden Fear, Adaptability, Growth
“I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them. I am a better mother for it. The woman I am because I get to run Shondaland, because I get to write all day, because I get to spend my days making things up, that woman is a better person  –   and a better mother. Because that woman is happy. That woman is fulfilled. That woman is whole.”
— Shonda Rhimes, 9 Shonda Rhimes Quotes To Inspire You To Break Through The Glass Ceiling
Tagged: Womanhood, Whole, Create, daughters, Dreams, write
“How many women had to hit that glass before the pressure of their effort caused it to evolve from a thick pane of glass into just a thin sheet of splintered ice? … Making it through the glass ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman’s footprints. I just hit at exactly the right time in exactly the right spot.”
— Shonda Rhimes, Shonda Rhimes at THR's 2014 Power Women Event: "I Haven't Broken Through Any Glass Ceilings"
Tagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, boss, Power, Television
“Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers, you just breath deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed but sometimes the pain gets you where you least expect it. Hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it and life always makes more.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Bring the Pain
Tagged: Pain, Healing, Answers, solutions, perseverance
“Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy, maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’re thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Thanks for the Memories
Tagged: Gratitude, Celebration, Appreciation, Joy, Thankfulness
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