I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.

Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

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.