The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

Often when someone apologizes - like a parent who says to a child, "I'm very sorry I neglected you when you were a kid" - they also ask, "Do you forgive me?," because they want the other person to be over it. However, healing can take a great deal of time. And if we forgive too quickly, we cut the process short.

As many have observed, it is easy to tell a lie, but it is almost impossible to tell only one.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

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

If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.

Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").