I'd like to think I'm one of those strong women who have healed themselves and are now 'full of a deeper life'

"I had seen so many women emotionally knocked off their feet by a divorce. There were a few who did not recover, in the sense that they sank into permanent chronic bitterness or depression... But most women were remarkably strong... those who healed themselves were full of a deeper life afterward." 

-Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves