In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

The minute we have a pain, we want a diagnosis. So I think the minute we feel love, it's very hard to just let it be. We want to identify it, we want to catalog it, we want to keep the thing and create the environment it happened in. That's where marriage comes from! Let's make an institution out of it!

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.