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

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

Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.

We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.

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

Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.

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.