No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.