When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.