"It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past."

"I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so."

"When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more."

"Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style."

"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built."

"The goal seems to me at times just to be business first."

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."

"A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice."