Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.
The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.
If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.
I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.
I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.
The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.
I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.
It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
I knew that I had to write my memoirs.
I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.
Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
