It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if they're painters, you don't necessarily see them, or if they're actors, you see the role they're playing. In political life, you see women of enormous courage and smarts and humor, and that releases the talent, especially in little girls who are watching.

Helping begins with listening.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.