Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life; rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn.

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.