That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.

I believe that art has incredible power.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.