It was, Weisberg would later recall, "a calm household," and she also told a Tribune reporter in 1992: "I look back on my life a lot to see how I got to be the way I am. I seem to have a lot of confidence in what I think and in what I do. It's not that I think I'm so great; I'm a humble person. But I know that I'm going to be able to get something done, and I think that image of myself comes from the fact that my parents always asked me what I thought about things and respected my opinions."