I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of the things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm...very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families.

It's better to be interested than interesting.

The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.

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

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

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

I have always been with men who were type A, alpha males. I must exist because I'm with him, I'd think. But what made them what they were also often meant they were lacking empathy genes. And now I know I don't need an alpha male; I need somebody who's interesting. I'm not pretending that I'm 100 percent healed, so I might not know if a man is right for me right away, but it wouldn't take me seven years to figure it out. Maybe a month or two.