Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.

It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.