The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.