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

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

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.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.