Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.

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

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

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

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

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.