Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician I am glad to have laws.

Daddy I'm just little But I love you BIG Happy Birthday Big Daddy

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.