She is a committed animal lover and one of the few Conservative MPs to have consistently voted for the ban on fox hunting.

She has advocated for stricter gun control laws and gay rights, and voted against California's Proposition 8 during the 2008 elections.

She was voted number 1 in the magazine's 1999 edition.

She was voted into the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1973 and the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1974.

She was voted Best British Female Vocalist two years in a row by the magazine Record Mirror.

She is closely associated with a line from Grand Hotel, one which the American Film Institute in 2005 voted the 30th most memorable movie quote of all time, " I want to be alone, I just want to be alone ", a theme echoed in several of her other roles.

She was voted 20th in Channel 4's countdown of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time, being one of only two women in the Top 20 ( the other was Audrey Hepburn ).

She represents a district in Orange County, long a bastion of suburban conservatism, and is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrat Coalition ; she reportedly voted with Nancy Pelosi 97. 8 % of the time during the 111th Congress.

She voted against a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and supports abortion rights.

She voted to implement the 9 / 11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007.

She was voted Miss St. Louis in 1926.

She asked the school children what names they liked, and they voted to name their new town Gisela.

She voted for " Xenia.

She was voted by British exhibitors the tenth most popular local star at the box office in 1951 and 1952.

She has voted in favor of lifting the ban on privately funded abortions at U. S. military facilities overseas ( HA 209, rejected ), in favor of an amendment that would repeal a provision that forbids service women and dependents from getting an abortion in overseas military hospitals ( HA 722, rejected ), in favor of stripping the prohibition of funding for organizations working overseas that uses its own funds to provide abortion services or engage in advocacy related to abortion services ( HA 997, rejected ).

She also voted in favor of the 1998 Abortion Funding Amendment, which would have allowed the use of district funds to promote abortion-related activities, but would have prohibited the use of federal funds.

She voted against a Constitutional amendment banning flag-burning and against a Congressional resolution supporting the display of the Ten Commandments in courtrooms.

She has also voted to remove an amendment that would allow for oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

She was motivated to run for Congress after the representative in her district Dan Frisa voted against an assault weapons bill.

She voted for the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

She is pro-life and has voted against embryonic stem cell research.

She has voted in favor of granting legal status to fetuses via the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

She was voted " Most Talkative " in the 1961 school Hoss Election, and in her Senior Year ( Class of 1963 ), " Most Dramatic ".

She ultimately voted off Rob to give herself a better shot at winning.

She was voted " best personality " by the graduating class at Wheaton High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.

She studied it for a long time.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

She set the dipper on the edge of the deck, leaving it for him to stretch after it while she looked on scornfully.

She said, with the solicitude of a middle-aged woman for her only child.

She wrote gay plays about the girls for family entertainments, like `` Oh, What Fun!!

She has rarely been photographed with him and, except for Carl's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in Chicago in 1953, she has not attended the dozens of banquets, functions, public appearances, and dinners honoring him -- all of this upon her insistence.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

She knelt out of reverence for having read the Meditations of St. Augustine.

She left the next day for her teaching job at Princeton, Illinois.

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

She had her reasons for this.

She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.

She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.

She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food.

She should offer substitutes for the temptations which seem overwhelmingly desirable to the child.

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

She was taken up in worry for the reckless old man.

She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.

She lay under the covers making jabbing motions with her forefinger telling me where to look for the coffeepot.

She wrote again and now, abandoning for the moment the theme of love, she asked for help in the matter of her career.