Being able to laugh got me through.
Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.
It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.
I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.
I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
I thank God that I became addicted to pain pills, because the process of going through rehab taught me more about myself than I had ever known. I wish I would have learned what I learned about myself I learned in rehab, going through life. You know, we're all raised to be loved. We care about what other people think of us, and sometimes to our detriment we let feedback and the opinions of others shape our own self-image. I was guilty of that, too. But in my professional life, I had mastered it. I didn't care what the critics said.
We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.