She has famously been quoted since as stating that she has " no memory of this tour " due to her increasing dependency on the tranquillizer Klonopin, prescribed in ever increasing amounts by a psychiatrist between 1987 and 1994 in an attempt to keep Nicks from regressing to her former abuse of cocaine.

She had an " exquisite " poise and a famously graceful deportment ; Horace Walpole once quoted Virgil as to her gait, saying, " vera incessu patuit dea " ( she was in truth revealed to be a goddess by her step ).

She remarked famously, “ Sometimes talking to Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn ’ t thump when it hits bottom .” She subordinated her career to his and shared his reclusive life style.

She famously worked in various ball-gowns without the customary cook ’ s apron, averring that women should feel cooking was easy and enjoyable, rather than messy and intimidating.

She famously snubbed the Academy when, regarding her nomination, she declared it offended her to be nominated without being asked.

The famous feminist, Gloria Steinem at one point stated, “ you became a semi-nonperson when you got married .” She also famously coined the expression ' A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle ,' Steinem dismissed marriage in 1987 as not having a ' good name.

She famously said at the time of her election, ' stop the world, Scotland wants to get on ', and her presence at Westminster proved to be a real focus for the SNP with a significant rise in membership being the result.

She lives in the English countryside and prior to the release of Soldier of Love in 2010, the Daily Mail described her as " famously reclusive "..

She was famously widowed in 1889 when Rudolf and his mistress, Mary Vetsera, were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide pact at the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods.

She refused, and the press sensationalized the family conflict and famously began referring to her as " The Mrs. Astor ".

She also famously retorted in response to Clive Anderson's suggestion that Jeffrey Archer should not be given " the oxygen of publicity " that " I'm not that happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen, actually ".

She famously relates to the tale of the missing sun deity, Amaterasu Omikami.

" She was famously treated harshly by Dreyer, who had a reputation for being a tyrannical director.

She was famously arrested on the picket line during the Grunwick dispute, where Asian women workers were striking for Union recognition.

She was a tough, pipe-smoking woman who once famously headbutted the headmaster of Lister's school when Lister came bottom in French, leading to Lister's expulsion, and whose cooking led to his being nicknamed " Fat Boy " from ages eleven to thirteen.

She was named after her father's aunt, Edith Minturn, famously painted with her husband, Isaac Newton Phelps-Stokes, by John Singer Sargent.

She was famously painted by society painter Philip de Laszlo at the age of 48.

She lived in Southern California and wrote widely ( most famously the book The Witches ' Qabalah ).

She showcased her singing abilities, famously covering Luther Vandross ' " Dance With My Father " and Dolly Parton's " I Will Always Love You ".

She is the daughter of former Fianna Fáil minister, Pádraig Flynn, who once famously described her as a " class act ".

She is well known for the Japanese voice of Monica Gellar in Friends and probably most famously Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon.

She is one of the central figures in the Middle Irish text Finn and Gráinne and most famously, in the 17th-century tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, which tells of her betrothal to Fionn mac Cumhaill, leader of the Fianna, and her subsequent elopement with Fionn's warrior Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

She appeared in a number of films, most famously Tod Browning's Freaks ( 1932 ) which, according to the documentary on the Freaks DVD ( Freaks: The Sideshow Cinema, 2004 ), left her unhappy with the overall portrayal of the sideshow performers in the film.

She was resentful of his easy success as compared with Shelley's failure.

She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique.

She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).

She begins by claiming that her opponent was an “ expert in rhetoric ” as compared to herself “ a woman ignorant of subtle understanding and agile sentiment .” In this particular apologetic response, de Pizan belittles her own style.

She is compared with Penthesilea, mythical queen of the Amazons, by the Greek historian Nicetas Choniates ; he adds that she gained the epithet chrysopous ( golden-foot ) from the cloth of gold that decorated and fringed her robe.

She compared what she found with recordings of non-Christian rituals from Africa, Borneo, Indonesia and Japan.

She hosted 56 state dinners over eight years, compared to six by George and Laura Bush.

She seemed especially kind compared to fellow judge Simon Cowell, who was often blunt in his appraisals of the contestants ' performances.

She indicates that when people, after having been immunized against snake-bite, are bitten by a venomous snake, particularly by krait, cobra or another elapids, they experience an emotional and mental state that has been compared to the effects of hallucinogenic substances.

She also began a jewelry and skincare line, although neither of those ventures compared to the success of her wig collection HAIRuWEAR.

: Example: She was a hippo compared to her aunt.

" She was favorably compared to both Joseph Addison and Samuel Johnson, no mean feat for a woman writer in the 18th century.

She also was inspired by fellow vocalist Whitney Houston, whom Dion has often been compared to.

Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”

She compared the phrase to " All this and heaven, too!

She stated that it took her four days to get over the sight of herself aged so drastically, and compared the feeling to having an " electric shock ".

She compared Florida sugarcane agriculture to sugarcane grown in the West Indies, that she claimed was more environmentally sound, had a longer harvest cycle less harmful to soil nutrients, and was less expensive for consumers due to the higher sugar content.

She then took personal charge of the imperial family, directing its affairs with such authority that she became known in society at large as the emperor ’ s guardian .” Immediately when Pulcheria took authority over the imperial palace, the palace took on a much more monastic tone compared to that of her mother ’ s palace.

She suffered from toothaches which she refused to have treated locally, and took extensive measures to shelter herself from the harsh sun, not only spending much of her time under a large parasol but wearing large sunglasses and wrapping her face in a white gauze veil, to the point that her appearance was compared to a Star Wars stormtrooper.

She compared her own move from Boston to New York to Fuller's, saying that Boston was not a good place for intellectuals, despite the assumption that it was the best place for intellectuals.

She is often seen as unattractive when compared to her beautiful older sister, Bridget.

She is known for being very strong willed compared to the other Wise Ones who are all considered strong willed.

She is embarrassed by how " boring " her family is compared to her friends and classmates.

She also compared the ESF to the nazi occupation of Florence.