00:00My ultimate inspiration comes from my best friend, the dazzling woman from whom I received my name and my life's blood, Lorelai Gilmore.
00:08Oh, hang in there.
00:10My mother never gave me any idea that I couldn't do whatever I wanted to do or be whomever I wanted to be.
00:16She filled our house with love and fun and books and music, unflagging in her efforts to give me role models from Jane Austen to Eudora Welty to Patti Smith.
00:24As she guided me through these incredible 18 years, I don't know if she ever realized that the person I most wanted to be was her.
