Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

The mind dies, but its thoughts live on. The heart perishes, but its experiences live on. The body expires, but its spirit lives on.

I feel angry but not homocidal

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

Find the right people, not the best people.

I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.

God is the source. Everything else is a resource.

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.