It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

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

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.