“The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material to compete.”

“Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: contr...”

“My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship...”

“It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a womans love is no life at all.”

“There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and through hiccoughs, trembling, I would hiss, dont touch me! as he moved to place...”

“For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Years Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember fe...”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being”

“Career is a marathon race, not a 100-meter sprint ~ Deepak Mehra”

“We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief...”

“Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.”

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”