Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission.

Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.

We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.