You know, sometimes you have to remember the bad things so that you can learn from them.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.

You can't take my joy, because you didn't give it to me

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.