Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

Mom always told us to wear pretty, matching underwear.

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.