To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
You can do one of two things just shut up which is something I don’t find easy or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
When you can’t remember why you’re hurt that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can’t quite get there that’s when you’re better.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
It’s about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
It’s hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I’m not discouraged.
The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can’t do what they used to do, and that’s terrible.
You don’t learn from successes you don’t learn from awards you don’t learn from celebrity you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.
The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
I’m now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.