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.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I had, and I had more opportunities than certainly my grandmother had. It's the arc of history, always bending toward justice and opportunity, and she will be part of that.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

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