I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.

It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.

I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Judith took a deep breath. "Aye, you captured Iain's wife," she said again. "But he married your daughter.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

The less you need, the more you attract.

One of the most enduring friendships in history - dogs and their people, people and their dogs.