I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

There is no tenderness without bravery.

My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

If you feel lucky, then you are.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.