There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end.

Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.

... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.

Don't just buy a new video game. Make one.

The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.

America has always imported history.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.

Girl Rising reminds us that educating the girls of today is an investment in everyone's tomorrow.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.