My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

• It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
• We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
• We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
• 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.
• I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.
• If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
• If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
• Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.
• I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
• I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.