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Mother of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal

She received her M.A. in developmental psychology from Columbia University

She received a B.A. in English from Barnard College in 1966.

Is Naomi from the line "And what about Naomi?" in the "Love of Chair" segment from "The Electric Company" (1971).

Eric Foner is sometimes incorrectly referred to as her brother (The Columbia Spectator, February 2006). He is actually her ex-husband.

Graduate of Barnard College (Class of 1966).

Granddaughter Ramona Sarsgaard, born October 3, 2006.

Daughter Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal, born November 16, 1977.

Son Jacob 'Jake' Benjamin Gyllenhaal, born December 19, 1980.

Grandmother of Maggie Gyllenhaal's daughter Ramona.

Godfather of her son Jake Gyllenhaal is Paul Newman.

Godmother of her son Jake Gyllenhaal is Jamie Lee Curtis.

Personal Quotes

"When I write, I see a movie playing in my head. The role of the screenwriter is to step back and let the directors have their head during the process. Sometimes they're amazing -- often they make wonderful additions, as do the actors -- and sometimes the films are different in a way that you wish they weren't. I think at some point or another, every screenwriter feels like they would like to fall on their own sword, and try to get it to come out the way that they saw it."

"I'm very proud of them (her children Jake and Maggie Gyllendal). I think their choices are very thoughtful and they will affect a lot of people, and they have a lot of courage, and they will cause people to think and change their minds. I am delighted to see that they're the kinds of people that they are. I'm very unhappy that we live in a culture that is so closed-minded about a range of ideas and thoughts, and I'm even more unhappy that fear is often used as a way to manipulate that. Certainly as a parent I worry for them, every parent worries for their child, but I'm enormously proud of them."

"I write about family all the time. I can't exactly tell you why. I think it's a really important and significant arena. The terrain of family involves two very powerful people who are parents and two -- or however many -- dependent children. The power of the parents is usually something they don't understand they have. They don't really get it."

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