Quotable Women
This country star said she's not offended by dumb blonde jokes, specifically stating "I know...I'm not dumb...I also know I'm not blonde."
DOLLY PARTON
John Avildsen may have been an underdog but he won a directing Oscar for this 1976 Sylvester Stallone movie.
ROCKY
Many funeral homes suggest keeping this to 5 minutes or less
A EULOGY
This drama was about the survivors of the crash of Oceanic flight 815.
LOST
In babies, this, AKA the patella, is soft cartilage; it doesn't form into bone until between the ages of 3 & 5.
THE KNEECAP
Upon being freed from prison in 2005 she remarked "The experience of the last five months... has been life altering and life affirming."
MARTHA STEWART
To win a 2000 Oscar in this movie Russell Crowe played a real blood sport.
GLADIATOR
The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians used throughout most of early Egyptian history.
MUMMIFICATION
Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson solved crimes in modern-day New York City on this CBS procedural.
ELEMENTARY
Both humans & giraffes have 7 of these bones in the neck to hold the head aloft.
VERTEBRAE
This Bronte sister revealed in an 1840s letter "I am neither a man nor a woman but an author."
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
He won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as real-life champ Jake LaMotta in 1980's Raging Bull.
ROBERT DE NIRO.
Her 1997 funeral included a song with the revised lyrics "Goodbye England's rose may you ever grow in our hearts."
A San Francisco detective solved crimes on this show despite his obsessive-compulsive disorder sometimes getting in the way.
Bile aids digestion by breaking up large molecules of fat; it's stored in the gallbladder but made by this organ.
THE LIVER.
"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry" confided this second-wave feminist and sociopolitical activist co-founder of Ms. magazine
GLORIA STEINEM
This Swank-y 2004 film fought its way to Oscars for Best Picture Director Actress & Supporting Actor.
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
The underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris' ancient stone quarries.
CATACOMBS
Hayden Panettiere starred on this show about rising & fading country music stars.
Cardiac contraction is termed systolic & cardiac relaxation gets this adjective.
DIASTOLIC
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel" is one of this renowned american poet and civil rights activist's most well known quotes.
MAYA ANGELOU
Punchy pug Marlon Brando brawled his way to a Best Actor Oscar in this 1954 classic
ON THE WATERFRONT
Venerating the underworld goddess "Mictecacihuatl," this celebration was moved to coincide with All Saints' Day & All Souls' Day.
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (DAY OF THE DEAD)
After their mom's death 3 young women discover they have magic powers on this CW drama.
CHARMED
During swallowing this flap of cartilage prevents food from entering the trachea.
THE EPIGLOTTIS