I Am Convinced That We Become What

I Always Tried, In The Books I Wrote, To Make It Clear: Thin Is Not The Goal. But I Was Thin. So No Matter What I Said, The Subliminal Message Was, "you Have To Look A Certain Way." And I'm Not Happy About Playing Into That.

Who Am I? I'm A Survivor. I'm A Woman With Tremendous Inner Resources And Resilience. I Care About People. I Believe In 'do Unto Others As You Would Have Others Do Unto You,' And I Live By That. I Am Becoming Authentic, And That's Important To Me. I Have Surpassed Both My Parents In Terms Of Emotional Stability, Happiness And Well-being. And I'm A Lucky Woman. I've Deserved My Luck.

I Spent A Good Deal Of Time Going Back Over My Childhood, My Midlife, To Try To Understand Who I Was. We're Supposed To Be Complete And Whole, And You Can't Be Whole If You're Trying To Be Perfect. Doing A Life Review Helped Me Get Over The Disease To Please.

I Was Raised In The '50s. I Was Taught By My Father That How I Looked Was All That Mattered.

I've Been Accused Of Being Too Flexible, Too Willing To Mold Myself To Men, And That's Something I'm Constantly Working On.