I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

Let’s reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

She's familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.

You can’t really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesn’t work because it can’t love back.

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

What we really need, after all, is not to defend the Bible but to understand it.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.