I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.