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

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.