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

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.

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.

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.

England is one of my favorite places. The fans are just so crazy.

The curse of the sun and the moon is fake. It doesn't exist.

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Don't touch my muscles

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

If it ain't tubes, we don't do it.

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life