“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.”

Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.

We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

Go for the burn! Sweat!

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.

Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

I’ve never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.