Quotes from Adina Porter

I'm a mom... and I'm learning this being a parent, sometimes your child can be such a reflection of who you are. And I have to figure out when it is my ego that dictates how I parent and when it is what I think is best for my child.

When you trust, and you open your heart, and you think - well, maybe not heart - when you put down your guard and you let someone in and they betray you, that guard goes up really hard.

Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids.

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

Monologues are fun.

I get a thrill out of looking at my Twitter following and seeing how big it has gotten.

I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.

My kids are resilient, I'm resilient, and I guess I am an optimist.

I know what it's like to do whatever you need to do to make sure that your kids are happy and well and succeed.

I'm a bit of a wuss. I'll even watch, like, a Tom Cruise 'Jack Reacher' movie where, I mean, there's a lot of action, but the violence is no real violence, but I still hide my face because there might be violence.