That’s why some people end up looking like prunes and others like plums!

At 20 -35 you flaunt it. By 50 you hide it. When you’re young you can see every detail of yourself with no idea what you’re looking at. As you age you see yourself more clearly but lose your sight to protect yourself. I think of beauty as an inner beam, a process of self-acceptance that allows you to light up the world. “Women’s Search For Beauty” is like “Man’s Search for Meaning” without lipstick.

Cokie, how fascinating to look at our founding fathers…and compare them to our own fathers and husbands, great and small - and to know that these men and our men, so privately rely on us and so publicly rely on themselves.

Sometimes there is no fixing it, no matter what mirror you hold up or what knee you get down on. For me loving and trying was so much easier than letting go.

The micro is the macro - and the macro is the micro. Or like Gloria Steinem said - the political is personal and the personal is political. For me, I’m changing the world by the way I conduct business, by the way I raise my children and by the way I feel about myself. I’m changing the world by finally getting off the sidelines and operating with courage and action. This is a vast and intimate view of the world - playing it forward like the mustard seed that roared.

Retire? At 55 I’m just ramping up. Unless you actually mean re-tire..which is when you burn out your first set and put on the new set, ready for the open road!