Ricki Lake

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.