I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.

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

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

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.

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.