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" Putting my words piece online was an important part of my plan to help women learn how to love themselves and have a better life. "

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" Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice. "

" You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way. "

" Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor. "

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" The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out. "

" Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often - especially if you have a lot of defenses to let down, or if your parents didn't know how to love you very well. "

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" People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being. "

" Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not. "

" I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships. "

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" Women blame men for their own singlehood. "

" When relationships don't work out, it doesn't mean you're a bad person, it just means you weren't meant to be together. "

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" Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary. "

" I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real. "

" Without really trying to, I've become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships - someone who's had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours. "

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" I've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've learned: Eventually, most women I know want to be partnered. "