My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.