I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

I ask women to check the feelings they have about themselves before they do something. If you're doing it out of a sense of desperation and need, don't do it.

I hope we have a whole lot of healthy men out there impacting their wives and daughters with a sense of value and dignity. They can have a huge impact. It takes a secure man to breed that sense of security in his family.

Insecurity has been my lifelong thing.

I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.

We've got to know the Word of God. That is our absolute stability. That is our offensive weapon against the kingdom of darkness.

I think that what women need to hear is that there is life after failure.

I was the worst teacher you have ever imagined - not that we did not have fun. We had a ton of fun. We just did not learn any scripture. I would think all week long what could I talk about on Sunday, and then I would scramble on Saturday to find some kind of scripture to go with it. This was my teaching.

As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.