I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Some venues are more intimidating than others, but as professional players you enjoy the intimidating places more than the other kind.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Get rich or die tryin'.

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

Giving tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants needs to stop.

I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.