The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.