When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.