Kate Millett

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.