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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

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

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

I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

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.

Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

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