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You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.

Lesson NUMBER THREE is that ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THEY ARE DOING IT ALL PERFECTLY IS A LIAR.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

The only obstacle to your success is your own imagination.

I am never more sure of myself about a topic than when I have absolutely no experience with it.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need. He is very dreamy," she says. "But he is not the sun. You are.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.

So you made it out of a uterus a long time ago. Big deal," I whisper. "So did everybody else on the planet. What else you got?

Every "yes" changes something in me. Every "yes" is a bit more transformative. Every "yes" sparks some new phase of revolution.

Cristina Yang was the walking validation of my dreams.

I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.

Mother is a verb, not a noun.

Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.

don't apologize for being powerful. They don't

This Yes is about giving yourself the permission to shift the focus of what is a priority from what's good for you over to what makes you feel good.

Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are.

the air you are breathing right now is rare air. Appreciate it. And don't be an asshole.

But we all have to acknowledge that our way is not the way.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

Marriage is a financial partnership. Marriage has nothing to do with love. Love is a choice we can make every day.

If I don't poke my head out of my shell and show people who I am, all anyone will ever think I am is my shell.

Wonder Woman is not faking it. Wonder Woman means it. Wonder Woman is all swagger and badassery. Compliment

Standing around like Wonder Woman in the morning can make people think you are more amazing at lunchtime. Crazy. But true. How awesome is that?

I can experience life or I can give up on it.

If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, then stop accepting crap and demand something more. - CRISTINA YANG, GREY'S ANATOMY

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

Nobody ever asks a man how he gets stuff done. Nobody asks a man how he finds balance.

There is victory in surrender.

Now, I'm no longer looking for the enemy. So I no longer see the enemy.

I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

Cheesecake will always taste like love.

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

The best stories are often true ... The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

A hashtag is not helping. A hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Dr King. A hashtag does not change anything. It's a hashtag.

Remind me to start a revolution about that later.

Badassery, I'm discovering, is a new level of confidence - in both yourself and those around you.

I was baptized Catholic but I was Church of Oprah. If you are a person on

I am different. I am an original. And like everyone else, I am here to take up space in the universe.

When you sit down to write every day, it becomes easier and easier to tap into that creative space inside your mind.

Losing yourself does not happen all at once. Losing yourself happens one no at a time.

Saying yes . . . saying yes is courage. Saying yes is the sun. Saying yes is life.

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

Sometimes the toilet paper does not win. Sometimes a broke woman needs the red wine more.

I mean that I am going to miss Cristina Yang so much that my heart hurts.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

#StopPretendingHashtagsAreTheSameAsDoingSomething

Volunteer some hours. Focus on something outside yourself. Devote a slice of your energies toward making the world suck less every week.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Being a mother is incredibly important. To the naysayers, I growl, do not diminish it by calling it a job.

I don't think it ever occurred to me before how much and how often women are praised for displaying traits that basically render them invisible.

It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say.