The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it also serves to impart a tone of frivolousness and lack of seriousness to ambitious, intellectual, and competitive striving that women may pursue.

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.

The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself.

We all fear change, even as we seek it.

What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same.

Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.