A Seasoned Woman Is Spicy. She Has

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.

Frustration Is The Mother Of Risk.

Children May Need Challenges And High-risk Conditions In Order To Develop The Self-generated Immunity To Trauma That Characterizes Survivors. To Be Tested Is Good. The Challenged Life May Be The Best Therapist.

The Work Of Adult Life Is Not Easy. As In Childhood, Each Step Presents Not Only New Tasks Of Development But Requires A Letting Go Of The Techniques That Worked Before. With Each Passage Some Magic Must Be Given Up, Some Cherished Illusion Of Safety And Comfortably Familiar Sense Of Self Must Be Cast Off, To Allow For The Greater Expansion Of Our Distinctiveness.

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.