"I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions."

“It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”

“I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.”

“I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.”

Source : "The Women of Hollywood Speak Out" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2015.

“Economic gross is making us fat.”

“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”

“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”

“I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.”

“For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.”

Source : Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf