“Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.”

“If indeed it's a raceThen the chicks do the mostIt isn't a bragOr an estrogen boastIt's the women who've led meWith big open heartsIf not for their loveI'd have failed at the start.And it's not just the mothersI speak of them ALLIt's a woman there first When somebody falls.The multi of taskingThat's easy to teaseI dare a great manTo try it all, PLEASE!So this is my shout outMy rallying cryTo women all overI hold you up highAnd though there are othersWho'll think this poem strangeIt's the women who plantThe root of big change.”

“My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.”

“There is nothing you will regret more in your life — nothing — than not being present for your children”

“The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.”

“He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.”

“And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?”