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

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

Being able to make a sincere apology - one that says, "Yes, I get it; I screwed up. Your feelings make sense, and I'm taking this seriously" - is at the heart of being successful in leadership, parenting, and friendship, as well as our own integrity and self-worth. And the failure to apologize? Even a good relationship will suffer quietly - because we really feel it when someone won't take responsibility for what they said, or didn't say.

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

Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.

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.

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.