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I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.

When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

I'm a girl from Jersey.

I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.

I'm not full on 'Jersey Shore' Jersey, but in my heart, my bangs are so feathered with tons of hairspray. My husband says that whenever I get tired, it comes out.

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me; how could I possibly belong any place else?

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

Really, I'm just a simple girl from Jersey.