I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Don't seek permission to be happy.

What appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world.

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

I want to be able to twitch my nose like that so I can clean my house! I have four children. I have been praying for that gift, but I haven't gotten it yet.

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

Her,” he said. “I’ll take her.