Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.
If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.
You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.
The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls in junior high are having oral sex and getting bracelets for it, and in movies everybody's got to be 30 years old to have sex. It's very bizarre.
I don't know what goes on behind my back. . . I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information shehe has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that shehe has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.
We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.
I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be a doctor would study medicine. You have to know your craft and by doing so I had to make sure to ignore what people were thinking as well.