When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.