Without living, there will be no learning. Without learning, there will be no growth. Without growth, there will be no change. The only way you learn is by trying. You may make mistakes but you...

Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.

There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman…[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren’t there.

Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you’ll never know the secrets; and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.