But I don't want more things than I need, either.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.

I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.