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

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

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

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.

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

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

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.