Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.

I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.