Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

MacLaine contrasts reactive change—made only after damage is done—with a more mature, timely willingness to adapt. The repetition of “Someday” gives the line a wistful, almost prayer-like cadence, suggesting both hope and frustration at humanity’s tendency to resist necessary shifts until crisis forces them. The second sentence reframes change not as an emergency measure or moral failure but as an ordinary condition of living: as inevitable and natural as “life itself.” Read this way, the quote advocates a cultural and personal posture of flexibility—anticipating transformation, meeting it without panic, and treating adaptation as a basic skill rather than a last resort.