I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.