I didn't just wake up one day understanding how to take care of myself. I had to learn how to do so over time, and I continue to learn - each and every day. This is a process, and my body is constantly changing. So is yours. And when I learned how to accept that I will always be like this, I relaxed. Our bodies do not stand still for time.

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.

As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.

My family were liberal with a small 'l' but passionately doers. I wanted to be a doer.

Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.

I may or may not have disappointed Malaika as a boyfriend and a husband, but not as the father of her child.

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.