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.

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

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

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

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

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.