Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?

We must encourage, support and comfort one another.

People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity. – Thomas Kelly

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.