This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

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.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.