Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together - women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together, and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it.
Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.
Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.
We need women friends, women who challenge us.
I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.
My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.