The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.

So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.