The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.