Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.