Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

It was very easy for me to dedicate myself to the care of mothers, help them have healthy babies, help them be healthy, help them in a place where they don't have opportunities. Success breeds the excitement to continue going. It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.