My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

With love, don’t desire to tie someone down but to set them free.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.