The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

The best definition I've heard is that guilt is about what you've done, shame is about who you are. If something's out of my control, I don't feel shame about it, because what could I have done? If you're guilty, you can at least try to atone for it or make it better or not do it again. If it's who you are, you can't do much about it except change yourself, and that's pretty hard.

The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show them,” she said, “and that’s all I ever am to them.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.