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

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

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.

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.

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

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").

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.