I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms.

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.

You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

I am going to name a group of my kids after my favorite cartoons, I am going to name them after Transformers.

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at.

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.