It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

Once women find a way to form community, everyone reaps the rewards.

There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.