“In my marriages, I’d lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.”

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

It’s better to be interested than interesting.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.