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.

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

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

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.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.