When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

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.

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

The secret of losing weight is patience.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

I've always felt like a teacher. Whenever I've learned something important, my reaction has always been to tell everybody about it. I read a book, I buy 100 copies and I send them out.