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There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all th...more

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Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was b...more

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Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone...

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He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

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He said, "Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatom...more

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I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of...more

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If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from you...more

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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don...more

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The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't...more

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Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out an...more

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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thous...more

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My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here’s how I can t...more

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Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go ...more

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The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many...more