I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
Mothers. . . would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.
I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.
Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.
I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God.
I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.
We've got to provide additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance.
Taunting Death. . . means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.