To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.