When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.

Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off to high school, off to wherever they go, and nobody's had the conversation about how to conduct themselves. About a man telling his son how to be a man. How to respect a woman. How do you respect yourself?

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

These days we don’t have to fit into something other people think we are. We’ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I’m a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle — we can now, with grace, be all of what we are.