We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.

People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.

That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children.

There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.

It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more - I salute you. But it's just as hard to admit something isn't working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.

I hope to inspire others to be confident in their own skin and to love themselves with makeup or without.

You know that the world is a better place when people can come up to a severely disabled person and say: 'Well done. You are an inspiration.'