But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go.
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
(n.) Alt. of Memoirs
Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito, I'd tell people.
The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.
We mask our needs as the needs of others.
Yvette is a woman who looks like a church bell. Her copper body curves with purpose, angles on a chair as if from a tower overlooking a village by the sea. Her bones are strong everywhere, in her chee...
I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.
Hey everyone. This is Elizabeth Stone, the one who wrote a A BOY I ONCE KNEW and BLACK SHEEP AND KISSING COUSINS. To those of you who read either one, thanks! But another Elizabeth Stone, not me, wrot...
A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to con...
I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can seem by comparison. Where I came from, we have shriveled down the notion of what consti...
You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life.
...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.
You don't need everyone to like you, just the right one(s)!
You are not yourself in autobiography. It is never going to be you, it is only words on a page. Memories are unreliable, so adding the magic of imagination will make your story come alive.
That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.
Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had to be shared. If she tried to hold anything back, they would search and fin...
I saw it all suddenly while I was reading . . . Forster’s the only one who understands what the modern novel ought to be . . . Our frightful mistake was that we believed in tragedy: the point is, tra...
Now that young girls like my twelve-year-old friend Mai are being exposed to modern Western women like me through crowds of tourists, they're experiencing those first critical moments of cultural hesi...
Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.
لا يمكن للحب أن يكون مبكرًا أبدًا
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