I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

I wasn't at all trying to be skinny, My Mom is Jayne Mansfield, I'm allowed to have curves.

You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

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.

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?

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.