“I was a single mom by choice at 37, and if my love life hadn't quite p...” — Rachel Simmons Quote

“I was a single mom by choice at 37, and if my love life hadn't quite panned out, most everything else had. I was a classic 'amazing girl' - driven, social, and relentlessly well-rounded - reveling in the fruits of post-Title IX America: an all-metro athlete in high school, Rhodes Scholar at 24, best-selling author by 27.”

“Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.”

“In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.”

“As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.”

“God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He's an author, speaker, and businessman. He's just a great husband and blessing.”

“As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.”