I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.