“Sex is an act of pleasure and an expression of love. How better to communicate ones deepest feelings than without the clumsy use of words? Andr Chevalier”

“Good sex requires further exposure than simply removing ones clothes. And as for a good relationship? Ah! For this one must be prepared to reveal even more. Andr Chevalier”

“Find one person to trustthere need only be one. With them, share every shame, every secret and listen to theirs with love. Bare hearts and souls until there is understanding. Of a certainty, such h...”

“Abuse is a parasite that feeds off hate and shame, growing in size and strength with silence.”

“Denial can be a most useful, temporary shield. Unfortunately, such flimsy armor will not last a lifetime. It is best to face your past, and do so quickly, before your past returns to face you. Andr...”

“Find one person to trust—there need only be one. With them, share every shame, every secret and listen to theirs… with love. Bare hearts and souls until there is understanding. Of a certainty, such...”

“Once you start laughing, you start healing.”

“All you need to find a strong, loving man is the knowledge and understanding of the power you have as a woman.”

“No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is defenseless against your womanly power.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”