People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.