Jessica Capshaw quotes:

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

My musical taste is like a 16-year-old girl's when it comes to working out - Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus. I love it all!

As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.

I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it.

Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.

I use only essential oils for perfumes.

I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?

I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.

I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.

My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.

I'm very active when I'm not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your life, not something you have to force yourself to do.

I love the surprise element of being a mom.

My husband always smells good to me.

I was always the girl who had that baby face.

There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality.

The only thing I never have unless I'm pregnant is heartburn.

I love my babies so much that I could kiss them all day long..as a job. I could be a professional baby kisser. No joke.

To be honest, makeup is a big part of what I do for a living.

I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.

I've braved the red carpet when I didn't feel comfortable, and when I look at the pictures, it always shows!

Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!

I was never a rail-thin person.

I love to wear dresses when I'm pregnant.

It's not a guy and a girl, or a girl and a girl or a guy and a guy - it's a relationship.

I am a very hopeful person.

I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'

I got a Cabbage Patch doll from my mom when they were impossible to get. She later told me that she had to buy it off the black market. That was the best!