To try to be better is to be better.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The average person thinks he isn't.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.