I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

You have to embrace getting older.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's the most important thing, is that she win the argument, and there is nothing that stands in the way of that train, you know. But Julia's just alive in front of you. That's part of why people loved her. They lived it with her. They breathed it with her. And the mistakes were all part of it.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

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

If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.