When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.

Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over.

Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.