"We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life."

"People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance."

"The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen."

"The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms."

"Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door."

"I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality."

"It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles."

"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed."

"Everybody says, 'When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.' But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it."

"As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them."

"Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in."

"I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence."

"My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's."

"Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion."

"The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important."

"Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion."

"Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night."

"Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good."

"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door."

"Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life."

"Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools."

"One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement."

"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!"

"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence."