Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.

The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

Listen to your instincts. It will guide you to the right path.

The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man...

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.