Learn to take criticism seriously but not personally.
Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.
Along the way, I’ve tried not to make the same mistake twice, to learn, to adapt, and to pray for the wisdom to make better choices in the future.
When any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone.
I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I love mystery novels and can plow through one in a single sitting. Some of my recent favorites...
Given my inability to explain this mess, I decided to let other voices tell the story this time.
Although we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it’s got about 18 million cracks in it. And the light is shining through like never before, filling us...
To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. —Flannery O’Connor
That was some weird shit, George W. reportedly said with characteristic Texas bluntness. I couldn’t have agreed more.
My mistakes burn me up inside. But as one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, says, while our mistakes make us want to cry, the world doesn’t need more of that.
Knowing what to expect next gives children a sense of security.
I wish so badly we were a country where a candidate who said, My story is the story of a life shaped by and devoted to the movement for women’s liberation would be cheered, not jeered. But that’s not...
I went back to de Tocqueville. After studying the French Revolution, he wrote that revolts tend to start not in places where conditions are worst, but in places where expectations are most unmet. So i...
Early on the morning of November 9, when it came time to decide on what I’d say in my concession speech, I remembered those words. Inspired by them, I wrote these: To all the little girls who are watc...
Do all the good you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
Do I feel empathy for Trump voters? That’s a question I’ve asked myself a lot. It’s complicated. It’s relatively easy to empathize with hardworking, warmhearted people who decided they couldn’t in goo...
As the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes, It’s not your job to be likable. It’s your job to be yourself.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. —Friedrich Nietzsche (and Kelly Clarkson)
Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you. Easier said than done.
So I’ve never had much respect for activists who are willing to sit out elections, waste their votes, or tear down well-meaning allies rather than engage constructively. Making the perfect the enemy o...