Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe, ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's go get an ice cream. I am not going to enable you. If you can only come as a wanton woman for hire, because you feel dirty and shamed, then no. Women are goddesses.' And I know that and I believe that. I chose a man who believed that, too.

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.