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

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.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

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.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

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