Winning is everything in Hollywood.

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!

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.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!