Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.

To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry.

His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons with that voice, whether he'll throw down judgement with that voice.

We're only three class sessions in and I'm already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can't get out of my head?

High school is such an incestuous little pool.

Everything feels yes.

I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of time has felt this good.

My brain is such a traitorous beast.

Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

Even though more people can build websites today than even 10 years ago, I think there's probably even less really deep understand of how a good website gets built than there was even then.

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.

The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.

I don't believe in retirement.