"I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life."

"I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children."

"I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change."

"At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck."

"This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign."

"I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done."

"Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior."

"What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money."