I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.
I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.
Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.