When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.

I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude.

I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.

It is important to have friends and family around that I love and trust and who love and trust me.

I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.

Human beings are complicated and flawed and unique, but we all have a story to tell. Gone are the days where our lead characters can only look like somebody else. Heroes look like all of us. We see ourselves in each others' stories. We see who we are. We see who we want to be. Sometimes we see who we don't want to be. And through that we have a greater understanding of ourselves and acceptance of each other.

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political.