I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

You'd better talk to my dad. My mom's pretty busy.

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.