Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

To achieve what you have not, you must become what you are not. You have to GROW into your goals.

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

I try to act out of faith.

The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.