The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.