I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

I'm trying to make it cool to be a good girl.

Growing up in the South, it was very patriarchal. When I applied to Stanford, I was told by a [male] college counselor, "You're never gonna get in, don't bother. They don't want you." I said, "I'm going to try." And I got in! But I wouldn't be the woman I am if I hadn't had that conflict to overcome. It has given me an underdog feeling all my life.