Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.

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

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

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

Fear is a message - sometimes helpful, sometimes not - but often conveying critical information about our beliefs, our needs, and our relationship to the world around us.

It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.