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.

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.

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.

Always start your day with positive thoughts and attitude of gratitude.

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?""By feeling things - too much, I suppose, " Therese answered conscientiously.

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.