Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out." I wince. "Do you have to be quite so graphic?" "What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.