You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.