Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential.

I feel you not only on Valentine’s day but with every breath of everyday.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing.

[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces.

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

Lil Wayne is the man.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.