As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

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.

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

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

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.