We must teach our girls that if they speak their mind, they can create the world they want to see. (145)

Women know intuitively when they are being devalued. (121)

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.

I hope that I am still racing at 50, as long as I can get out of bed.

Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.