As a kid, I felt really weird.

Let’s reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

I'd rather be poor to my bones than be rich with your money, that is like a trigger, ready to be pulled in my face.

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.