I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.

Even happy situations can easily start to feel miserable. So, I think that people who consider themselves sophisticated or who are in fact sophisticated have come to distrust stories that are uplifting or simply stories in which the characters get what they want in the end. Because in life, what you want is never the end.

I think politics are a part of life, so I have no resistance to it, but it's not something I set out to do.

Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.

I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix external verities, things that are true for all time, ideas that are true for all time: Rome will last forever! America will last forever! Beauty, as defined by the fashion industry, is one of those things—this is beautiful. This will always be beautiful—and hold it in a way that has some sense of permanence about it, and absoluteness. And yet it’s not.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

I became very aware of how important it is to connect with children - possibly for the children, if they're in the mood for that - but certainly for the adults.