It’s mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.

Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins... and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

We're our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men.

I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together.

He said that faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.