You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into sororities and fraternities and I didn't.

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.