We all fear change, even as we seek it.

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

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

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

The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself.

The best apology, I think, was from my husband, Steve, who slept with a close friend of mine decades back, when we were committed to being life partners but not yet married. And many of the factors that made Steve's apology so healing are universal. One important thing is that he confessed to the affair, rather than my discovering it. He looked deeply into his own history in terms of why this happened, but he never used that history as an excuse.

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