I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

Relationships & personal Interactions are like having food...if it doesn't taste well, we can't eat it, no matter how beautiful it looks ~

Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

... people notice differences and expect every difference in form to convey some difference in meaning.