The Importance of Connecting With People

"I was thinking about connecting and connecting on a different level, which is to say, if I'm choosing to be interacting with you at a time where I don't know how much time I have left, then you better be a person I want to connect with," she says. "That idea of being connected with what is living like that last poem in the book, where I turn into a tree or whatever, as much as I could make peace with death." She also talks about menopause's effect on her sex life: "You realize how much of life can be sexy"