In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

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

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.

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.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

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

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.