I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.

She is a 1973 graduate of Southern Methodist University where Patricia Richardson was friends with classmates Beth Henley and Stephen Tobolowsky who was slated to be a cast member of Home Improvement but had other contractual commitments when the series began filming. Richardson also appeared in the first season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. U.