I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.

My parents found me very difficult to educate.

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.