You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

I wasn't pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I wasn't unattract­ive enough to be the dorky girl.