Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

Some people won’t go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, something is bound to happen.

Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance!

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

I’ve known for years that resentments don’t hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

To be kind than to be bright, we don’t need an intelligent mind that speaks but a patient heart that listens.

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.

I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak…. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes.