At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

Enjoy going through life as yourself.

Your body and the environment around you may reflect the disturbing and unusual activities unfolding across the globe as the planet evolves.

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

Now, more than ever, the choice between Obama and Romney will be which one do you want to ruin your country?

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

No women no kids - that's the rules.

When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.

There needs to be just a little bit of crazy when dreaming up a new concept.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?