Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.