The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

I went out in my goddamn underwear too!

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.