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

We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.

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

Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Judging others is simply the flip side of judging yourself.

Women are raised to be the nurturers and steadiers of rocked boats, to hold relationships in place as if our lives depended on it. But it shores up your own dignity and integrity if you're able to say, "There are a million things I love about you, and I want our relationship to continue. I forgive you 95 percent, but not this 5 percent."

Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.

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