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It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

Although there are many trial marriages ... there is no such thing as a trial child.

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

By operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

I dare to do things - that's how I survive.

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.

I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.