The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do wrong again. You become a threat and liability to others. That's a pragmatic reason, outside of pride in morality, not to do wrong.

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.