"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."

"Politics disgusts me."

"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."

"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."

"I want a baby and I want a family, for sure."

"Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes."

"My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony."