When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Write the book you'd want to read.

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.