“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really ...” — Gail Sheehy Quote

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

Change brings opportunity.

You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you're thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.