When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Little Brown and Company. On February 3 2004 Shriver asked to be "relieved of [her] duties at NBC News" citing concerns the network had over the conflict of interest between her role as a journalist and her status as the First Lady of California and her increasing role as an advocate of her husband's administration. Shriver led the California Governor & First Lady's Conference on Women from when Schwarzenegger took office in 2003.

She has received a Peabody Award and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy).