I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.