My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

Savor what you are and not what everyone else wants you to be.

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.