I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

I think I'm one of the very lucky ladies.

Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.