I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

Failure is a greater teacher than success

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

Stories are medicine.

The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.