While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

You're more powerful when talking from your soul.

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So no matter what I said, the subliminal message was, "You have to look a certain way." And I'm not happy about playing into that.