Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.

Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.