Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

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.

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.