Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.

If they don't believe in you or your dreams, then their opinions of you are highly unimportant.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

It was like having a genie. I'd only get so many wishes.

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

I'm so thankful that I have gotten the opportunity to fulfill my life purpose of staying inside on tumblr all day.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.