When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

Sometimes you feel a need to express yourself, and there is no better way than to go to places where people need everything. It's dramatic, it's tragic. You just can't understand why, in the world of today, there are still things like that. The images you see on TV kill you. Of course when you are there (at these trouble spots) you can't turn off the TV. You are face-to-face with reality.

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.