Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together - women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together, and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it.

If I can change, anybody can change.

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.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.