Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious!

I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.

Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.