You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.

Food is more than a matter of taste-it is the fuel for our bodies.

That's what we're all doing: paving the way, finding the roles that have the complication instead of the one that's always got it together or the dedicated housewife or the wild one who smokes cigarettes and sleeps with anybody.

Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.