Cognitive psychologists have found that women are more empathetic than men, and possess a greater emotional range—traits that make fiction more appealing to them.

In a way, reading is a metaphor for how women deal with pain.

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Maybe it’s a thirty-something thing. This new reality that’s hitting me. The reality of THIS IS IT. This is my life. It’s here and it’s happening and I am the only person who can save me.

You get a sense about people. You pick up on energy, cues, wavelengths. Most of the time we’re not aware of it, yet something is signaling us. Telling us to look, slow down, make contact.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning. -Louisa May Alcott

Life is long, if you’re lucky. It’s full of twists and turns and potholes. This was a hit I wasn’t expecting. A hard wack from behind. But what can I do? Not tell you about it? It’s like hitting a plot twist in a book and trying to ignore it.

St. Thomas Aquinas said: “A person is said to be patient . . . because he acts in a praiseworthy manner by enduring things which hurt him here and now and is not unduly saddened by them.”

According to Kathryn Shultz, “Trusting too much in the feeling of being right is dangerous.. When we act like it is, when we stop entertaining the possibility that we could be wrong, that’s when our mistakes happen.”