The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

If you feel lucky, then you are.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

intuition is always right in at least two important ways

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.

Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.