Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

Without my women friends, I wouldn't know anything. They've been my teachers and my mothers. My mother was a wonderful person, but she didn't give me a lot of the stuff I needed to advance myself as an adult woman. I have a really strong group of girlfriends, and we share a lot with one another - the complications of raising children, marriages, personal and physical struggles.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.