I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

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.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.