I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.