"It’s a great symbol of having arrived. You have the key, you have the necklace, but it’s a little culty. It’s a little like wearing a cross, like a religion," she said in her Variety interview.

The Harvard Study of Adult Development has established a strong correlation between deep relationships and well-being. The question is, how does a person nurture those deep relationships?

In the late 1950s, Kathryn Burden went to the Newport News, Va., schools system and demanded an education for her special-needs daughter. When school officials asked, "But who will teach her ...