You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

Forgiveness, she was only required to accept the seed of healing, and to let it grow on its own time.

I can hear the tick tick tick in my head: A tripwire ready to explode in fury. And then, in my mind, I start to count down from ten…any moment now.

You can be an expert on anything if you just use logic.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.

Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.