Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

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.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.

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

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

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.