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Frustration is the mother of risk.
I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
When you have self-respect, you have enough.
A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.
I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
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.
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.
The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.
Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.
You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
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.
It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!