Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.

If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!

A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!

I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

I don't wase time thinking, 'Am I doing it right?' I say, 'Am I doing it?'

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

Reprisals are but a sad resource.

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.