We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.