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.

I just hope I will be as good a mom to my child and, hopefully, children as my mom was to me.

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.

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

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.