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

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.'

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.

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.

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.

It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.