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Shonda Rhimes Quotes

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“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
“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
“It’s good to be scared. It means you still have something to lose.”
— Dr. Richard Webber, Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy Season 4: Crash Into Me
Tagged: Risk, Fear, Moving Forward
“You should just go into the light already so I can get on another case.”
— Dr. Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy, Season 1: Winning a Battle, Losing the War
Tagged: Die
“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
“I don’t know what’s me and what’s tumor talking, but, um... in this moment, I love you people tremendously.”
— Dr. Amelia Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Ain't That a Kick in the Head
Tagged: talking, Love, tremendous, Tumor
“I smile at her and take off my clothes for you. I wait for you. I watch for you. My whole life is you. I can’t breathe because I’m waiting for you. You own me, you control me, I belong to you.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 2: Happy Birthday, Mr. President
Tagged: Sex, affair, Life, breathe, belong, Control
“I may not be able to control my erections around you, but that does not mean I want you. We are done.”
— President Fitzgerald Grant, Scandal, Season 2: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Tagged: Erections, Done, Uninterested
“You control everything. Which is precisely why I want to kill you... and have sex with you at the same time.”
— James Novak, Scandal, Season 3: Everything's Coming up Mellie
Tagged: Control, Kill, Sex, Passion
“You don't get to run. You're a gladiator. Gladiators don't run. They fight. They slay dragons. The wipe off the blood. They stitch up their wounds, and they live to fight another day. You don't get to run.”
— Abby Whelan, Scandal, Season 3: The Fluffer
Tagged: Gladiator, Fight, Blood, Persistence
“You see me for what I am. A filthy monster desperately trying to hold on to the last shreds of its humanity.”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 4: The Testimony of Diego Muñoz
Tagged: monster, humanity, Filthy, Desperate
“Mellie: Truth is, I was glad you were there. You were a good mistress. Probably a great one. You know what I mean?

Olivia: Well, I am an overachiever. Once I put my mind to something, I commit.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 5: The Candidate
Tagged: Mistress, scandal, Overachiever, Commit
“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: I don't like it when the bad guys get away.

Cyrus: Then you shouldn't have come to Washington.”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 2: All Roads Lead to Fitz
Tagged: bad guys, Escape, Washington, Crime
“This isn't how I want it to be, how either of us want it to be. This is what it is. Let's stop pretending. Let's just be here.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 3: No Sun on the Horizon
Tagged: pretending, Reality, present, Expectations
“Everyone is worth saving. Everyone. In the face of darkness, you drag everyone into the light.”
— Rowan Pope, Scandal, Season 3: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Tagged: saving, Light, Everyone, Help Out
“Leo: Any words of advice?

Cyrus: Nope. Well, maybe. Try and protect your soul if you still have one. It's futile, but you should still try.”
— Cyrus Beene, Scandal, Season 3: The Price of Free and Fair Elections
Tagged: Soul, Protection, Do Good, Advice
“When a woman is president, they'll suddenly make first lady an official paid position. They will hire someone to do it. The minute a man has to do it, it'll become a real job.”
— Mellie Grant, Scandal, Season 4: Baby Made a Mess
Tagged: Job, Women, First LAdy, paid, difference
“You are not my enemy. You are my freedom. You are my white knight. You are my challenger, my push to greatness, my savior. I was lost, but now I'm found. I was blind, but now I see.”
— Mellie Grant, Scandal, Season 5: Get Out of Jail, Free
Tagged: Enemy, Freedom, Knight, Greatness, savior, found
“I always thought that there was something wrong with me. And I always wanted to run, until I met you. You’re so screwed up that you make me make sense. You and me, we just fit. ”
— Dr. Jo Wilson, Grey's Anatomy, Season 14: Old Scars, Future Hearts
Tagged: Wrong, Run, fit, Make Sense
“Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means that I am failing in another area of my life.”
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Tagged: Having It All, Before and after, Career, Success
“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
“It's not about the race at all. There are no winners or losers. Victories are counted by the number of lives saved....And once in a while, if you're smart, the life you save could be your own.”
— Shonda Rhimes, Grey's Anatomy, Season 1: Winning a Battle, Losing the War
Tagged: Victories, winners, losers
“Alex, I haven't had sex in eight months and twelve days. I'm horny, I'm half-naked, and I'm saying yes. Do you want to stand there and talk metaphors, or do you want to literally take off your pants?”
— Dr. Izzie Stevens, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: It's the End of the World
Tagged: Horny, Naked, Come-ons, Metaphors
“I have met a woman who is never terrified. Who does as she pleases. Breaks rules, courts scandal. Commits unthinkable impertinences. And she is the most royal person I have ever known.”
— Young King George, Queen Charlotte, Miniseries: Holding the King
“Love is not a thing one is able or not able to do based on some magic. Some chemistry. That is for plays. Love is determination. Love is a choice one makes.”
— Queen Charlotte, Queen Charlotte, Miniseries: Gardens in Bloom
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