Tracy McMillan

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.

Lots of people feel more alive when they're riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it can't possibly last.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.