Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!