Occupation: Writer Birth: 1948 Death: April 14, 2013
The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives….
It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings..
We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we ….
Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking ….
Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to t….
We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutor….
Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate fee….
As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she nee….
Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforeha….
There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the re….
In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without say….
You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it..
Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist w….
Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were..
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implicatio….
In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules..
Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost..