Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.

Take the reins of your life in your hands every day. Get up and put a smile on your face, and feel grateful for this gift in your life.

There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.