I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

If I'm too strong for some people that's their problem.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.