From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.
In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
Many women feel it is natural to consult with their partners at every turn, while many men automatically make more decisions without consulting their partners.
Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication
Genuine effort is success.
Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.
Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.