If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.

I guess I get a little sentimental, but I'm so used to moving on and making myself stronger where that's concerned, otherwise I would just be a wreck!

I had a hard time with bullying. I ate lunch in the bathroom.

The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

I have drunk and seen the spider.