"Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence."

"I'm constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, 'Well, this is bloody weird', you can get through everything."

"Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman"

"It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male,or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true."

"I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special."

"I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore."

"Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care."

"I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman."

"Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30."

"Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand."

"Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be."

"Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other."

"Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the"

"If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think"

"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world."

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own."

"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."