99 Quotes by Marcia Clark

Work offers a defensible escape from a private life on the skids. Working myself to the point of exhaustion left me feeling purified. Exhilarated. I think it also gave me a sense that I was cheating mortality.

This steak wouldn’t have tasted nearly as good if I’d been lying dead at the bottom of a ravine. I lifted my martini and drank to that.

CAR TAPE. October 1994. I’d like to see us abolish the jury system. Why leave the fate of our nation in the hands of these moon rocks?

Denial is sometimes the only comfort you can offer yourself. Because once you let yourself feel, the misery is endless.

I heard Chloe Monahan’s voice on the television and the shock of it made me jerk my head toward the screen again – but it was just a clip from her interview on Ellen. Bonnie put her hands on her hips and fixed me with a death ray. “Once more, Brinkman, and I’ll let you go out there looking like a raccoon in drag.

I had the perm because I wanted wash-and-wear hair. I didn't want to be bothered with it.

I am a feminist. And I don't think of that as being anti-men, I think about it as equal rights for women.

Before I was a prosecutor, I was a defense attorney. I took a cut in pay because I wanted to stand up for the victims.

I made mistakes in every trial.