You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

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.

I don't dream of a ceiling fan which is always here spinning above my head. I dream of a cool weather

Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God—on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.

Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.

She might be unarmed, but Rose Hathaway was in possession of many weapons.