If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
