Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. - Anne Lamott

She wears latex bicycle shorts nearly every day, and I will tell you why: because she can. I consider it an act of aggression against the rest of us mothers who forgot to start working out after we had kids.

Worship good editors. They save you from yourself, from your blind spots, and from your weird little habits that you think are charming but actually are not.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.