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" After losing Steve, it does kind of feel like I'm free-falling. "

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" It does seem like, in the world today, we've moved further and further away from wildlife. There's that sense of whatever you're scared of, you just want it to go away. Here in Australia Zoo, part of our ongoing plan is that re-connection. "

" I don't know a single surfer who would say, 'Gee, I wish there were no sharks in the ocean.' "

" Parenthood is a great equalizer. It doesn't matter how famous you are - once you become a parent, you are just like everyone else. "

" Just like Steve did, Bindi's got that strange communication with wildlife. It's beautiful to watch, and it instills an empathy with all of us about just how important the animal kingdom is. "

" To get someone who is sensitive yet strong... Steve was that. "

" Steve said to me how excited he was when Bindi was born. He said, 'Do you think we could have a boy?' And then Robert was born, and they're perfect. They're easy kids. They're wonderful to me; they're such a help. "

" It pays to be in the best shape possible when you're wrangling the largest reptiles on Earth! "

" I find it wonderful when people live, love, and laugh again. "

" I've always told Bindi, 'If anything ever happened to me, I will always watch over you from Heaven.' But she always understood because, living at a zoo, animals die; she's seen death. She knows what death is. "

" Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it. "

" I think being in a car is far more dangerous. I feel much more in control with a 16 foot croc, 3,000 pounds jaw pressure trying to have a go at me. "

" Good nutrition and regular exercise definitely help you cope with life's dramas. "

" I'm Mrs. Steve Irwin. I've got a lot to live up to. "

" No matter the circumstances are that you lose someone, nobody's truly prepared. Steve's accident was so unexpected - it was extremely challenging. "

" Steve was every woman's fantasy: macho but not a jerk, sensitive but not a wuss. "

" You can't just go and collect animals from the wild. It's totally illegal. "

" I haven't dated anyone in the ten years since we lost Steve just because I feel a connection still with Steve. "

" I still feel immense love and loyalty to Steve. And I've got great kids, I've got a very full life, and while I'm lonely for Steve, I'm not a lonely person. "

" When Bindi and Robert have grown, there will probably be another life for me, and I can't anticipate exactly what that will be, but it will involve continuing Steve's work, conservation, being there for my kids, Australia Zoo. "

" You might not think of 'conservation' immediately when you think of Russell Crowe, but he is a great conservationist in his own right. "

" Crocs are apex predators, and as with all apex predators, they are critical to the environment: if you lose the crocs, you'll lose the barramundi, you'll lose the crabs - a catfish can eat 30,000 barramundi fingerlings, and who do you think eats the catfish? Crocs. "

" Our message, without preaching, is how to treat wildlife and to have empathy for all animals. "

" Living with Steve was like standing in a cyclone. Then we lost him. It was like the wind stopped. "

" I'm real adamant that, when we have family time scheduled, that we stick to it. "

" I always am astounded at how willing Steve was to share all about himself. And sometimes he got criticized for it. But he was so open and yet so private about some things. "

" I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand. "

" When I first met Steve, as an American tourist coming into the zoo, I fell desperately in love with him and married him immediately. "

" We need to stand as a nation, a state, a community to protect wildlife and wild places for our children. "

" None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up one morning and you've moved on. It stays with you, and, you know, you ebb and flow. "