"My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969."

"American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation."

"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."

"In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education."

"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well."

"Wisdom principle 66 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 91."

"Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times."

"It is a radiant truth that all philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing — an essential principle for the reflective life."