Family is what grounds you.

The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether you’re married or not.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

I haven't placed any limits on myself