I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.