Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

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.

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.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.