Quotes About Growth

The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.

Life was meant to be lived.

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it

I think I've been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

We need women friends, women who challenge us.

The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.

I'm trying to get away from trashing women, to be honest. I think I've done enough of that in my career.

Dad is a new person. A person who has learned that forgiveness is better then revenge. Next year, we'll teach him that heart attacks are not like women. You just can't keep having them!

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.