Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

I live in the land of delight - of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining, and I'm on my way to Starbucks and I'm feeling good. I also live for those aha! moments when you understand something new, when you see two things fitting together to make a surprising third. There's actually a chemical that's produced in the brain by learning that gives you that little ecstatic moment of, Oh, that's why.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

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

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."