I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
From Nora Ephron
I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
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