My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

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

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

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.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

[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.

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