Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.