When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.