I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

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

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.