the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.

Differences don’t just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.

As long as we can feel hope, there is hope.

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.

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").

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

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