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.

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

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.