If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions.