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Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.