Michelle Obama Quotes

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over...next!

If I'm having a really bad day, I always have a girlfriend - or even a guy friend - who I can call. They'll listen to me wallow for a minute and then be like, 'Okay, let's stop. Everything's great. Let's figure out how to fix whatever's bothering you.'

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

I have all these friends who just love therapy, and I always say the reason that I'm absolutely not in therapy is because then I wouldn't have anything to write.

Sometimes when I'm in the car driving, I scream at the top of my lungs.

I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.

Whenever I have a problem, I always talk to someone away from cricket; usually a friend or a family member who is invested in wanting to help me but who won't give me a coach's perspective or a cricketer's perspective.

I'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing.

If you have things that make you sad, express them to other people.

I believe the more you talk about everyday issues, the more it helps other people deal with it themselves.

I feel like sometimes we just need to speak more about what we're going through.

I cry if something bad happens. I grab a drink with friends when I get stressed out. I travel. I sometimes lash out at my closest friends.

And then it was between Shane and Claire on who retreated first. "Uou go," he said. "Why?" Shane and Pete exchangedblooks. "Seriously?" Pete asked. "Yeah, she's like that," Shane said, and turned to her. "Because you're my girlfriend, and I'm not going unti; I know you're safe. How's that?

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

If necessary, I cry. I pray. I rest. I'm fortunate to have quite a few strong, independent, loving, and unbiased women in my life that I can talk things through with.

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

I think that after a while you realize that your husband can't be all things to you and certainly you don't want the kids to be all things to you, because that would be a terrible weight for them; and that where you really find solace a lot of the time is with your girlfriends.