Determination gets you a long way.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

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

Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.