My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.

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

I am so proud and grateful to be my mom's daughter.

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.

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBT rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.