I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

If I can change, anybody can change.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.