Could we imagine that beauty itself doesn’t just exist in society’s version of aesthetic perfection? Beauty also emerges from places and things that tell us stories.

Creative thinking begins by embracing your naiveté and rejecting the obvious in favor of the unusual, the extraordinary, the evocative and or the new.

I wrote Beyond The Label to open up the aperture through which we look at the world. I want us to reconsider what it means to be a woman, a mentor, a wife, a mother.

Good leaders are always in the “act” of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.

Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.

This book is for those of you who are tired of trying to squeeze into constrained categories, who long for a life without limits on who you are or who you will become.

The underlying issue in getting women to top positions is what kind of leadership we value and how we teach, assess, and promote “good” leaders in all organizations.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.

Shannon isn't really my brother...Actually he's the love of my life.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.