The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms.

But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.