Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?