That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

There is so much more to me than my parts and what I wear, what my clothes are.

It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.

Women are very funny. Some of the funniest people I can think of are women.

If you let love solve everything for you, you have a lot of problems.

I was bullied a lot in middle school, and my bullies have since all apologized.

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.

Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.

Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it.

We are not moved by reasons but by emotions

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.

Red hair stigmatizes you.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind