My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.