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 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.

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.

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.

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

Leather and lace is such a sexy combination.

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

You can wake me up now - these last four weeks in America have been incredible.

Don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need.

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.