MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
[I think] everybody should see a dermatologist.
I had several moms who knew and didn't bring gifts for the baby and instead brought me food, candles, journals - the women who were like, "Actually, I know this is a tough time for you, and it's much more important that I show up here instead of to the baby shower. "
[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.
My perfect Sunday is waking up at 10 - which, you know, those days are over for me - but waking up at 10, breakfast with children, hanging out with well-behaved children.
I love being a mom. Being a mother is my favorite thing ever.
I never sleep in. By the way, when we're like, "We alternate waking up for the kids," the other person's waking up at 7 a. m. It's not like you're waking up at 10. It's like, "I'm really going to give you a treat and you're gonna get your ass up at 7 instead of 5:59. " Which is when our son wakes up.
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.
Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them. . . even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way. . . that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.
I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.