We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.

I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.

The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.