Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it.

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.

Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve.

I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.

A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.

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.