I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.