I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

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

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.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.