I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

Tragedy plus time equals humor.

When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, 'We relate to you. I've been divorced. I'm raising kids on my own.' Or, 'You've had money. You've lost money.'

The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.