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

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory..

I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use w….

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

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better..

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day..

Look for beauty in everything..

There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is where kisses come from.' I had been thinking ….

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted..

And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe of things that my mother knows that ….

People are always beautiful when you love them..

There is no tenderness without bravery..

If you feel lucky, then you are..

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world..

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

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the ….

We're looking for stories that speak to us. We're looking for stories that connect us with something true. But, instead, a lot of the time we get str….

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 ….

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

We are at our finest when we take care of each other..

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