Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are