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

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

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

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

" Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. "

" Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun. "

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

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

" Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting. "

" All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! "

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

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

" In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. "

" Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. "

" Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.' "

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

" Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads. "

" It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter. "

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

" I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?' "