Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

As long as we can feel hope, there is hope.

Differences don’t just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.

We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.

If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Judging others is simply the flip side of judging yourself.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.