Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

Doing things you're passionate about, with an intention of helping others, will make you an all around richer person.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

You will survive if you believe in yourself.

All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.

I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.

Sigma Chi, more than anything else, got me involved with the people who knew how to study, and they helped me. I learned from them. The Norman Shield is still quite applicable now.