Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together - women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together, and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

We need women friends, women who challenge us... I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.