Rebecca Miller

“I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.”

“That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.”

“I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.”

“I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.”

“Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will," said Pippa, taking a sip of water. "I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it.”

“Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.”

“I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.”

“Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.”

“The quality of life decreases with heightened security.”

“Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.”