“Don’t hide your face with too much gunk,/Especially if it’s old and lined/Don’t answer e-mails when you’re drunk/Don’t live with thirty years of junk—/Those precious things you’ll never find/Stop, if the car is going “clunk.”

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

“I never think of the future- it comes soon enough.”

“It’s not over till it’s over. You can keep being feisty, you can keep fighting and standing up and being brave, and we should, because what the hell do we older women have to lose?”

“To age is to learn more than you ever wanted to know about body parts that once went about their business offstage.”

“Wouldn’t it be terrible if you’d spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do … and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you, you’d say, “Oh my God, I could have got so drunk…