Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others.

Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you.

Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.

I would rather Google other people than Google myself.

My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty.

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

Dreams come a couple sizes too big so you can grow into them.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.