We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.