A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

Even though mother's issues are not front page news they touch us all personally, some more than others and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Unacceptable Levels is Powerful. It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of regulation. Our ability to protect our families is at stake.

Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

We all seek that somewhere to which we belong and that somewhere is surely not here!

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

It is staggering how completely, fully and fairly life supports you if your negativity will allow the blessings to arrive.

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

After three albums, you should shoot your producer

Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

It is not night when I do see your face.