Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

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

~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~

I have so much love that I didn't even know about.

To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.