As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Who am I? I'm a survivor. I'm a woman with tremendous inner resources and resilience. I care about people. I believe in 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you,' and I live by that. I am becoming authentic, and that's important to me. I have surpassed both my parents in terms of emotional stability, happiness and well-being. And I'm a lucky woman. I've deserved my luck.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

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

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.