The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

I wasn't pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I wasn't unattract­ive enough to be the dorky girl.

I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.