Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.