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.

We're all going to die.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

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

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.