I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work.

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights.

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

I have a deep, deep love for sneakers.

Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as any member of any disenfranchised community, is sadly often still a radical idea. There is so much power in storytelling, and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling, in inclusive representations.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.