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Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

It's hard enough to be in a marriage and then have a kid, then kids: it changes everything.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.