Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

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

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

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

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.