While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

I am a woman above everything else.