Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?