“There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.”

“(Television) The brain is differently wired in men and women. (Sylvia) In men, the wires are loose.”

“Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.”

“I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)”

“I don't want to be a man. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.”

“Women don’t want equal treatment, they couldn’t handle it if they got it. It’s a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up.”

“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”

“What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.”

“Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of "holy alliance."”

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”