Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

Some slight awareness in the back of her mind, beneath the pain, told her she was free.

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

I'm so hungry," Amy said sleepily. "Hey, you stole my line," Dan said.

Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.