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").

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

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

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

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.

We begin to change the dynamic of our relationships as we are able to share our reactions to others without holding them responsible for causing our feelings, and without blaming ourselves for the reactions that other people have in response to our choices & actions. We are responsible for our own behavior and we are not responsible for other people's reactions; nor are they responsible for ours.

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.