You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives because it isn't working for a lot of people particularly for a lot of women.

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.

I think older women still have a full life.

I merged those two words black and feminist because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Women are still second-class citizens.

I get along with all the women singers but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women Caucasian women they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.