Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Strangers are an endangered species.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.