It's a very hard line to walk, and I certainly am nowhere near having cracked how to do that, but I try to focus on being a brave performer and not worrying about my lighting or whatever, even though, then, sometimes I see myself on screen, and I'm like, "Why did you wear that, look like that, whatever," but I'm also more accepting that is what it is. There's this battle always.

A lot of men, they don't put anything on their faces. And some women also overdo it.

[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.

There were a lot of different things [in The Women's Room ]. I don't really want to summarize it in this way. It's about a woman's awakening, a woman who came of age in the '50s and is a teenager - actually, she's a little bit older - in the '60s and part of the women's movement and how she ends up there.

I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.