I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger. I didn't really want to be an actor. I didn't really love it. And so I made a lot of mistakes. Oddly, I care much more about it now. I feel like a complete novice.

Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.