When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

Women don't make the decisions in the media. Even if you see women on camera, they have to answer to the person upstairs, which is mostly men. Women only hold 3% of the decision-making offices in the media.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.