We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.