When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.

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

Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

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