Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.