Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

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

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.