“You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look” –Amy Poehler

“But surely a woman was more complex…and she might become herself not once-and-for-all but cyclically: waxing, waning sometimes disappearing altogether” –Miranda July

“The problem is the inability to close the gap between what we genuinely, even passionately want and what we are able to achieve” -Robert Kegan

“If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something” -James Baraz