Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are mad….

Differences don’t just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us..

Fear is a message - sometimes helpful, sometimes not - but often conveying critical information about our beliefs, our needs, and our relationship to….

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person..

While women once acquired relationship skills to "hook," "snare," or "catch" a husband who would provide access to economic security and social statu….

Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking..

The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to..

My debt to feminism is simply incalculable. Feminism allowed me to see past a 'reality' that I had once taken as a given. It helped me to pay attenti….

Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Jud….

We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy..

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same p….

The first world we find ourselves in is a family that is not of our choosing..

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions..

Women are raised to be the nurturers and steadiers of rocked boats, to hold relationships in place as if our lives depended on it. But it shores up y….

The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduc….

The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them..

If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different..

An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability,….

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our co….

If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first..

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either..