The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you’re lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.
You can’t call yourself a feminist if you don’t believe in the right to abortion.
To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.
The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn’t work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.
Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don’t mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.
You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.
I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren’t there and when they threw up.
I’m very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child’s problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
I don’t care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you’re also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
One of the great things about movies is that it’s just that short period of time. It’s a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.