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In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

When I was a kid I did not feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I did not think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I did not think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called Mom. It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it is important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.

I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a Twilight shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with Twilight, and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They had always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she is always with me on everything. The most I have ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

I want to be a loving mom.

I want to be a mom who listens.

I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I am still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation.

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working is not an option for me currently.

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.