I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.