It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

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

Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.

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.

He's a male chauvinistic piglet.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.