All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.