A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.

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

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.