The delights of self-discovery are always available.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the first time being called beautiful.