“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn’t know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you’re picking up the pieces–down to the last glassy splinter.”

“One of the benefits of being old is that you remember when it was worse…way, way, way worse.” Gloria Steinem, being interviewed on The Takeaway radio show, November 9, 2016

“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

“We do not inherit the world from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

“You’re not supposed to wish your days away when you’re 90, but this honestly cannot come soon enough.” (Oct. 25, 2016 tweeting on the 2016 election)