I've always felt like a teacher. Whenever I've learned something important, my reaction has always been to tell everybody about it. I read a book, I buy 100 copies and I send them out.

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.