I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

We as women put ourselves in this situation of feeling like we can’t take a risk, like in order to step out there we have to be perfect, because we’re scared that if we don’t say the right thing, or do the right thing, that we’ll reflect poorly on ourselves and our community, whether that community be women, people of color, both.

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined.

For me, 40 feels like a beginning. I'm in the middle of so much new - with this career, the kids, and I'm still sort of a newlywed. I'm excited to be at this stage in life.

If I ever have a family one day, everything else will pale in importance to that.