Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.
My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?
I actually do not think that's how what's happening to our government is going to be stopped. I think people who are willing to be civically engaged and believe in the promises and the progress of the last fifty years that will save this country.
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.
The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.