No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

Write like a motherfucker.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. I had to remake it again and be a new person in the world without my mom. It was a very primal rebirth, that time after my mom died.

We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.