I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

The longings of the human heart are changeable and elusive. The good fortune we enjoy today may not be appreciated until it has been taken away and we have to fight and try to get it back (p.132)

Gratitude goes beyond saying ‘thank you’. Feelings complete the blessing

People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us is that I think women have always known this.

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

We are seldom as limited as we think we are.