Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

God bless that women are free in America. We can say what we want, and I do think women will heal the world.

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.

There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don’t have time for hate or negativity in my life. There’s no room for it.

If more men would see a story of what it was like to be pregnant, and how it felt to be in a place where you had to make a decision about whether to keep a pregnancy, maybe they would feel differently about women's health care.

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.