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.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

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

The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.

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

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

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.