Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

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.

Live each day with ecstatic serenity

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson

I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.