Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

You can't be happy, if you're not free and you're not fulfilling yourself.

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.

My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

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.