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.

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

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

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

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.