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

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

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

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

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