Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.

You'll never catch a nudist with his pants down.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

I want my work to be judged, not me.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.