I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

Never let anything be a setback in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions.

It is rudeness of the highest order to hit a family when they are down.

... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.