When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.
I get a bit nervous because I just want the show to go well. I think you always have to be a little bit nervous, or else you’re a little checked-out, and that’s maybe the time when you’re not doing your best stuff, because you’re kind of just checked-out and falling back on stuff.
I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they ‘want to do’ and start asking them what they don’t want to do. Instead of asking students to ‘declare their major’ we should ask students to ‘list what they will do anything to avoid.’ It just makes a lot more sense.
What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I’m dealing with – working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s.
When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.
During an interview with Katie Couric Tuesday, Sarah Palin says she is not opposed to gay people, adding ‘One of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay and I love her dearly and she doesn’t exist.’
A top McCain policy adviser claimed this week that McCain’s work in the Senate helped create the BlackBerry, saying, ‘You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.’ He then handed the BlackBerry to McCain, who attempted to withdraw $20 from it.
Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.
I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.
Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It is a small, slow crawl to the finish line. Honestly, I have moments when I don’t even care if anyone reads this book. I just want to finish it.
I like bossy girls. I always have. I like people filled with life.
Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.
It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.
Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu – and I hear she’s amazing in it.
Creativity is connected to passion – that light inside that drives you.
I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It’s the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.
The pressure of ‘what are you going to do?’ makes everyone feel like they haven’t done anything yet.
When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when youre a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.
Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.