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" There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. "

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

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

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

" Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once. "

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

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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 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? "

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

" Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

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