My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.