Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
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.