Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.

—Harriet Lerner

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

—Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

—Mark Twain

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

—Carolyn G. Heilbrun

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

—Bertrand Russell