Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]

The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty (ed. Ballantine Books, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307802149