The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has Happened To People In Other Centuries Or In The Context Of Religious Experience...!!!

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.