I was a late bloomer, and that was my issue growing up.

The teenage years are my least favorite, though my son is phenomenal. He does not get in trouble, and he's not a bad kid. But the fact that they think they know so much.

I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.

There's so many different ways to get yourself out there, a lot more options than when we first came out.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America's settler families ate in the late 1800s.