The script came along and it was funny and it gave me the chance to play an outrageous character and I’ve never done anything before quite like her,

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Yeah, but I can look at it now and laugh at it, and find it very charming,

Just watching Bette Davis on the screen was empowering to women, I think. Certainly was to me. It was like: This is what’s possible. This is the range and depth that is possible for a...

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

I didn’t know they could do that.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

I don’t know if a country where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

We need to get a majority on the school board,

I thank God and I thank Ted Turner (her estranged husband) everyday that I don’t have to make movies.

I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky. [On being an actor]

what the right wing has done to Sheehan is despicable.

I wish that Id been able to have a class like this when I had my first kid, ’cause I was not a good mother, … And then, you end up paying for it later.

No, no, for a long time, I couldn’t look at it, … I thought that it was politically incorrect, you know.

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

This was an organization of men who risked their lives in Vietnam, who considered themselves totally patriotic.

promulgate their right wing, narrow world view. It really doesn’t have anything to do with me and it’s kind of sick.

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

If you’re ever in a situation where you’re not getting served or you can’t get what you need, just cry

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of...

I’m proud I went to North Vietnam because Nixon was lying to us,

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won’t complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

I like being a supporting actress. I don’t have to show up everyday. I was still writing the book, so it was the perfect thing. It may never be so perfect again,

I wish that I ‘ d been able to have a class like this when I had my first kid, ’cause I was not a good mother, … And then, you end up paying for...

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Contraception is important. Making contraception available doesn’t lead to promiscuity. But much more is needed than just contraception.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that’s love. It’s not love – it’s babysitting.

My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don’t want my kids to make.

If that’s what he wanted, I’d give it to him in spades. I wasn’t going to write about it. I got enough enemies, right? There ‘ s enough people who don ‘ t like me....

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford’s lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

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

My Life So Far

If you dont have a parent or an adult, a teacher or a mentor really see you, really love you, ‘Yes, there are things you do I dont like, but youre fantastic, youre good enough....

I would be a distraction–and the vacuum has been filled. That said, I plan to speak out and write some op-ed pieces, but no bus tour.

The reason why I left 15 years ago was because it was becoming agony for me, … But I’m a very different person, so I wondered if it would be fun again. You know, why...

I don’t want my wrinkles taken away – I don’t want to look like everyone else.

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

When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

In my mind it takes a special kind of courage to risk your life in another country, for your own country. The men and women who came back and spoke out were a special kind...