A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.

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

Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.