Even better than corny one-liners, however, are dark humor jokes. You know the ones ... I once asked a guy to call me a taxi. He said he would, but that I really look more like a truck.

"It was really important to me to get back to work," she says. "My mom was a painter and an artist but had five kids by the time I was 10, and it was impossible for her to find the time to do it.