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"I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are."
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"What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us."

"I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech."

"Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own."

"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."

"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie."

"The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again."

"My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you."

"What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you."

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."
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