“I didn’t know how good change could feel. I just worried about the risks, not the rewards.”

“I marveled about our collective ability as women to keep all the pain hidden, just below the surface.”

“I'd learned balance is internal; that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.”

“Life-change list Number Five: Don’t forget the care and feeding of friends.”

“It’s really a whole new feeling when you realize you’re in charge of your life, your thoughts, and your actions—or inaction.”

“My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.”

“Well, it does make you realize that life, even at its longest, is still very short.”