Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

I'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.

I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.