America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

You have to embrace getting older.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.