I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

What you don't know about women is alot.

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.