I think throughout my life I've had an appreciation for how all of these things have to come together in order to realize and then sustain change.

You can never separate yourself from who you are. You bring your whole self to everything that you do.

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'

You need people who are shaping and advocating for the actual policies and structural changes that need to occur in order to address those issues. That's where the politics and t

Hillary [Clinton] has a really broad approach to engaging people around policy precisely because she understands that there are so many different dimensions to each issue.

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are.

There was always so much I didnt know, but not knowing was part of it all.

Everybody's a dreamer.

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

The basic and essential human is the woman.

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.