It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my life [Laughs], the most rewarding and deepening, so I have a delight in portraying mothers.

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.