Mother Is A Verb, Not A Noun.

Dreams Are Lovely. But They Are Just Dreams. Fleeting, Ephemeral, Pretty. But Dreams Do Not Come True Just Because You Dream Them. It's Hard Work That Makes Things Happen. It's Hard Work That Creates Change.

At The End Of The Day, When It Comes Down To It, All We Really Want Is To Be Close To Somebody. So This Thing Where We All Keep Our Distance And Pretend Not To Care About Each Other, It's Usually A Load Of Bull. So We Pick And Choose Who We Want To Remain Close To, And Once We've Chosen Those People, We Tend To Stick Close By. No Matter How Much We Hurt Them. The People That Are Still With You At The End Of The Day, Those Are The Ones Worth Keeping. And Sure, Sometimes Close Can Be Too Close. But Sometimes, That Invasion Of Personal Space, It Can Be Exactly What You Need.

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.

I Want My Daughters To See Me And Know Me As A Woman Who Works. I Want That Example Set For Them... I Am A Better Mother For It. The Woman I Am Because I Get To Run Shondaland, Because I Get Write All Day, Because I Get To Spend My Days Making Things Up, That Woman Is A Better Person - And A Better Mother. Because That Woman Is Happy. That Woman Is Fulfilled. That Woman Is Whole. I Wouldn't Want Them To Know The Me Who Didn't Get To Do This All Day Long. I Wouldn't Want Them To Know The Me Who Wasn't Doing.

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.