My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.