“Lets be very clear about this, asshole: Ive been a woman in Arkansas. I know damn well what it means when a man says to me 'Calm down.' Being raped comes next, and thats a fact Im never going to fo...”

“Were not broken. Were not in the wrong bodies. Were not inadequate. Were not lesser. Were not unwanted. Were not fraudulent. Were not undesirable. Thats all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the...”

“I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.”

“Were all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.”

“Relinquishing control to another person is like death: its only scary until it finally happens.”

“Its the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. Its the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. Its the process of being used, examined, explored, and thro...”

“You are the gatekeeper to your life and your home. You get to decide who or what comes in and what needs to stay out. If it doesn't contribute to the peaceful home you are now trying to have, then ...”

“Saying yes comes very easily to me and, more often than not, I get into situations that could have been avoided by using the magical two letter word, NO. Then I sit back and regret having said yes ...”

“If you spend your life sparing peoples feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you cant distinguish what should be respected in them.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Everybody has a home team: Its the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. Its the people who, near or far, know everything thats wrong with you and love you an...”

“The more you condemn yourself for thinking or feeling a certain way, the more you feel stuck within your own body and mind.. What if you went the other way and embraced it so totally that it was as...”

“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

“One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.”