Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.