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

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" 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. "

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

" Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral. "

" In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it. "

" Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow. "

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

" If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship. "

" In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship. "

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

" 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?' "