It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

You don't have to have a man! Masturbation is especially useful for older women, because men die sooner than we do. And so: Use it or lose it. It's not critical that every woman wants to stay juiced up. But if they do, it's perfectly fine. It's a lot easier to feel sexy and perform safely when you're flexible and have a certain amount of strength left. If you keep moving - walking, staying strong, doing squats - then having sex is both safer and more pleasurable, and you feel more empowered and better about yourself.

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.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.