There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America!

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

Primary and especially secondary education is extremely important in preventing trafficking, it allows children to develop critical thinking skills to be able to defend themselves from traffickers and to have the skills that will enable them to have gainful employment to be able to support their families in other ways than being sexually exploited.