"You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I’ve always thought—put together all those random pieces form everyone who’s ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you’d probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it."

"If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next, don’t be. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness, don’t waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, each moment, as it comes; because you’ll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart… where your hope lives. You’ll find your way again."

"I hate the word ‘slut’ because it creates this weird binary concept in our minds. Women are either sluts or they’re prudes … We assume that men are inherently sexually-driven creatures, the natural initiators, that the desire for sex is their prerogative. Whereas we assume women aren’t particularly sexual … It’s as if a woman who looks as if she desires sex is unnatural and a bit masculine. Ideally she should play coy until a virile man comes along to fulfil his own pleasure while she submits. She has no personal sexual stake in the act so her participation in the sex is the ultimate act of servitude to him. If you use the word ‘slut’ you deny women their right to be satisfied sexually."