Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

What you don't know about women is alot.

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.