I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

By-and-by never comes.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy [the oil industry], that they are being watched.

Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.