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To Be Shapely When You're In The Seventh Grade Is Not Exactly What Everyone's Looking For, Or They Weren't Then, As Someone Was Telling Me The Other Day. Now, That's Like A Really Great Thing To Do, To Be, But Then It Wasn't.

-Katey Sagal

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To Be Shapely When

Katey Sagal

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To Be Shapely When You're In The Seventh Grade Is Not Exactly What Everyone's Looking For, Or They Weren't Then, As Someone Was Telling Me The Other Day. Now, That's Like A Really Great Thing To Do, To Be, But Then It Wasn't.

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