“Hope is a very unruly emotion.”

There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

I am ruled by emotion. She is a fickle leader of a volatile kingdom, where conniving skies cast intemperate clouds over my constitution.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.

These people are amazing. It’s so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

When you reach a point of no return with someone and you feel there’s going to be no reconciliation, you have to disconnect. I can’t allow myself to be emotionally connected with people like that again, it’s too damaging.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.