I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it work and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately want it to work; I desperately love my husband and I wanted to share everything together. And I thought that we were a very good team.

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.