It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.