There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive.

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.

Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James knows it. It is the secret behind all of our writing. And our reading. Arousal starts in the mind. And grows in the mind. The brain is the most erogenous zone in a woman’s body. That is our secret. And it is what we share.

Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.

Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings.