It's show business. No show, no business.
When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth. "
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch. ” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?
I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.