India, Jan. 11 -- Eat Pray Love is a one of a kind book. How difficult was laying your life bare in front of people that you didn't even know? Or maybe, more so, those who supposedly knew you?

I'm not a particularly private person (I suppose that's obvious by now) so it actually wasn't difficult for me. As I get older, I feel that I am even less concerned with privacy, for this reason: Whenever I reveal something painful or difficult about my own life, I hear echoes back from thousands upon thousands of women saying, "Me, too! Thank you for saying that out loud." I'm not concerned about sharing my hopes and fears anymore because they seem to be identical to the hopes and fears of everyone else. And I think anything we can do to share our...