Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.