The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

Behave like everything you do matters.