We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.

I hadn’t wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

I had a planned C-section and I cried the entire day before I had the baby.

Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that unless that's out in the open and people are discussing it, then our healthy democracy is not so healthy.

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.