"Some of it is petrifying, some inspiring, all unsolicited, but I thank people for that," she said.
On one episode, Carolyn Maloney, a Democratic representative from the Upper East Side, said of one government program, "It's petrified pork.
"Can you try on this ring for me?" It was petrified boar tusk, surrounded by very small diamonds.
And don't get her started on dentists: "I had my wisdom teeth pulled a few weeks ago, and it was petrifying".
It was petrifying to be up there.
And when you first learn a condition's term, like craniosynostosis, and you Google it, it's petrifying.
"It's petrifying to me that this is being normalized!" "Some of us do not want socialism normalized in this country," she said before co-host Whoopi Goldberg cut her off to go to a commercial break.
"'One Born Every Minute' is a stupid thing to watch, but I was compelled to watch it and I was petrified of losing all dignity and being ridiculous and rude to people and all the rest of it".
[Shirley] "'One Born Every Minute' is a stupid thing to watch, but I was compelled to watch it and I was petrified of losing all dignity and being ridiculous and rude to people and all the rest of it".
How can it be, when I am petrified that everything is a big fat lie?
