Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

The military is already sexually integrated.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Everyone deals with grief in their own way.

After Jessica Mitford published 'The American Way of Death' in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of support for government intervention followed. Under President Ronald Reagan The Funeral Rule was first enacted to protect consumers from deceptive practices, but the rule has yet to put the nail in the coffin.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

It scared my mom to death when all my friends started driving. She always told me she wanted me to drive, but I think she kind of felt lucky that I didn't get my permit when all my friends did. I think that's been the hardest thing for her, watching me go out with my friends and literally drive away.