I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

Let’s reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

when you see the problem as a more of you and less of people, you will find a distinctive solution to the recurring hurdles. Attitudinal and mindset change can cause a great change

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)