So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

your enoughness is off the charts.

When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not, ” I was saying my path would be my own.

the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark

Your husband is not responsible for your happiness

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.