I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy Godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.

If Cinderella were given a single shining epiphany (instead of a fairy Godmother), she would have realized: "This is my father's house. This is my father's estate. I am the rightful heiress to everything here!" then she would have said: "Get off of my property, take nothing with you, and never show your faces to me again! You ugly, bitter, insecure, envious witches!" And I'm sure she would have been happier, sooner!

I'm a Godmother, that's a great thing to be, a Godmother. She calls me God for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

"You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter. You aren't cold. You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay. If I were a fairy Godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an istant. And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry.

I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.