I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second.

My most important identity now is as a mother.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.