When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.