Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

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.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.