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

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

" I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35. "

" 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. "

" You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The delights of self-discovery are always available. "

" I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage. "

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

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

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

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

" I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life. "

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

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

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

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

" Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career. "