My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

Baltimore is a great place.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

We are humans who see clearly the barbarity of all ages except our own.

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.