You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of the things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm...very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families.

It's better to be interested than interesting.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.