When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.

You stop talking about things when you’ve worked them out. You’re no longer an observer but a participant. You’re too busy for this bullshit.

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

I think that just talking about what guys shouldn’t do, we got to also make sure that you can do your part to do whatever you can do to make, to try to make sure it doesn’t happen.

Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.

The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.