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.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself