A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune had told me that I was a "teacher"….

I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am a….

If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology..

I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and publishe….

I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts..

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting..

Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews..

I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. The….

I'm at that age where I notice friends checking out my face and wondering, Has she been Botoxed? There's a new map there people that are trying to re….

If, at some future point, my face collapses around my eyes, I'd probably do something about it. My eyes are where I live, and if people couldn't see ….

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?".

I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be both….

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothe….

I think there’s a lot of threshold weeping. Like, am I doing this? Am I really wearing this out in the world? My daughter is very much like that. She….

I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is n….

I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled out all ove….

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thr….

My husband is always accusing me of being a context-free individual. He asks something and he has no idea where it came from or what it related to. I….

I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical..

Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us..

I think female-female relationships interest me so much more because they're so encoded. There is kind of a psychic element that happens within group….