People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.

We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?” What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.

The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

It takes a long time to publish a book.

I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.