I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
My father had gone to Vietnam.
A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
The military is already sexually integrated.
I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
I think I did marry a marvelous man.
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
I come out of real life.
You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.
I have a husband who adores me.
If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.
Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
We're all going to die.
My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
Maybe we all change over time.
In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
