I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.

Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.

I want to be an integrated woman.

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.