Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

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.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.