I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

I'm not lost,I'm just in between places I recognize.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left.

You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.

Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use the rubble of the old to raise up the new ones.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

I'm awkward around girls.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

I was so awash in sensory overload that I was caught completely unaware when he did push me away