Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down.

To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.

I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.