One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

Liberation does not come from outside.

In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.