It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.

Some people take what they need from the orchard, and other people pick the orchard clean."From - "The Mind Game Company - The Players

My adversary is the world of finance.

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

Courage is more important than confidence

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.