I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Flowers bloom in the tranquility of love with a beautiful desire for the well-being of the earth.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

Someday, you will find the one who will watch every sunrise with you until the sunset of your life.

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.