Determination gets you a long way.

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.

I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

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

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

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.

Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it.