I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

I did masses of opiates religiously.

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.