In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.

You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.