I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.

I feel like I`m a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She`s absolutely been my focus. That`s the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

I couldn`t have been a bigger has-been. Two years ago I was crying on my kitchen floor thinking I`ll never be able to pay my mortgage.

I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women`s causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.

With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don`t bump into on the street and share my story.

I`m a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

I didn`t care at all about losing, but I just didn`t want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn`t win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations.

This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

I feel like I`m too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.

I`m a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

Well, I guess what`s caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn`t, you know me.

I`m 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy.

I`d like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I`m older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.

In all my career, in my ups and downs, I`ve never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.

My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don`t be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.

"I love clothes that when you put them on, you feel like you. I don`t care whether anyone else likes them" quoted in Woman`s World magazine 1-31-06

"I was in some deeply, deeply sad places. I wanted something to be solid for Emerson. When I was crying there, I was feeling I wouldn`t be able to pay my mortgage for much longer - there was a lot of money that I`d had that I didn`t have anymore. That was a low point." (regarding her marriage breakup and lack of career prospects)

"I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don`t know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole." (regarding turning forty)

"I was consumed with being a mom. I didn`t think beyond that." (Regarding her marriage to Jon Tenney).

"Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I`ve done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that`s what they should be. You shouldn`t be beating yourself up."

"I had to test, the whole rigmarole, but it was one of the greatest auditions I ever had. I left the building knowing I had this". (Regarding her audition for "Desperate Housewives" (2004)).

"What`s good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it."

"Despite the fact that I have a good-size pair of breasts... in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (1993), I have the opportunity to show the world they`re not my only attribute".

"My advice, be healthy, reach your own goals and don`t be afraid to impersonate a SNL star... " - AOL 7/96