Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.

Being by myself, that is to say, without a man - it's been a long time - is allowing me to know what it feels like - to live in my own skin, to remember what I miss and don't miss about a relationship.

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.