You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed, that pervades everything.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.