I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

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.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.