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

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.

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.

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

When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

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