I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.