When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can't do so with a pseudonym.

I just wanted to be married and to be happy ever after.