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.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

My family didn't come from fame. No one was musical in my family except for me.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.