If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.

We're all hookers in one way or another.

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.

Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

Every woman's wardrobe should include black.

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.