Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable

You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius.

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.

My secret friend, Oh, take me to the river.My secret friend, So we can swim forever.

I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.

Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.

She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move