I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

If you really need to, you have to make it happen.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.

Chiropractic solved my neck and shoulder pains; it put me back on my feet. I think chiropractic is great!