"Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon."

"I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer."

"I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price."

"On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well."

"It is a humble truth that the stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Ring out the old, ring in the new,  Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true."

"Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all."

"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."