"Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance."

"You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."

"My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence."

"I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled."

"I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into."

"My family came from Ecuador."

"Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations."

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."