True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.