When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

That's not what I want my children to hear. That's not representative of the country that I want my children to grow up in. And so that actually I found far more upsetting as a mom, as a woman, as an American, and even as my mother's daughter than anything they said about my mom.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second.

We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.

Determination gets you a long way.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.