Maria Shriver Quotes

• I was happy being a journalist. I didn’t realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

  Maria Shriver

• I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, ‘Well, actually, who am I today?’

  Maria Shriver

• I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

  Maria Shriver

• I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works like a dog. My comeuppance was when Arnold got elected – I became the Kennedy who was married to the governor.

  Maria Shriver

• I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.

  Maria Shriver

• I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn’t want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

  Maria Shriver

• You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go.

  Maria Shriver

• I, I am my own woman. I have not been, quote, ‘bred’ to look the other way. I look at that man back there in the green room straight on, eyes wide open, and I look at him with an open heart.

  Maria Shriver

• I appreciate your support, particularly this year, for sticking with me.

  Maria Shriver

• When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

  Maria Shriver

• I think that public service is tough on a family – no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they’re not always front and center.

  Maria Shriver

• I don’t believe in gutter politics. I don’t believe in gutter journalism.

  Maria Shriver

• Don’t think of him as a Republican. Think of him as the man I love, and if that doesn’t work, think of him as the man who can crush you.

  Maria Shriver

• We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off

  Maria Shriver

• Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

  Maria Shriver

Maria Shriver (15)

Birth:	6th November, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

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