It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.

I love to be surprised.

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie that matched. And I demanded that outfit, I thought it was so punk - her long skirt, she looked like a Scottish queen, so regal.