“Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.”

You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.

When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.

Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

The secret of losing weight is patience.

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.

You think you’re being broken but you’re really being broken open…and that’s where the healing happens, in those broken places…if you’ll allow it.

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I’d learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn’t start to get that until I turned 60.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.