The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

It was my father who instilled the “never say no” attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.