I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.

So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

I see women who have this struggle between what they know is right, what they know is necessary, what they know is healthy, what they know is good for them, what they know is good for the work that they need to do, what they know is good for their bodies, what they know is good for their families - all too often ending that statement with the upturned question mark: "If it's okay with everyone?" Still asking, still requesting, still filing petitions for somebody to say that it's all right.