When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.'

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

The best part of work is always working with people and getting to know them and having the sense that you're not actually working.

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.