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.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.