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.

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 don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.