The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.
I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.
I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
