I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.