I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know.

Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

I essentially write for myself.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Don't think shoot. Soon as you start thinking you miss.