We Cannot Elect Men To Office Who

I Know How Gratifying It Is Not Only To Work In Film But To Be Acknowledged By Peers; Producing 9 To 5 Was An Opportunity That I Valued Precisely Because It’s So Rarely In The Hands Of Women.

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.

What I Learned Is, We Have To Listen To Each Other, Even When We Don't Agree, Even When We Think We Hate Each Other. We Have To Listen To Each Others Narratives. Not Interrupt Defensively, Or With Hostility, But Really Try To Open Our Hearts And Listen With Empathy. I Learned So Much From That Meeting. It Was A Very Difficult Thing To Do And It Was One Of The Best Things That I Ever Did In My Life. Look What Scares You In The Face, And Try To Understand It. Empathy, I Have Learned, Is Revolutionary.

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 Don't Think There's Anything More Important Than Making Peace Before It's Too Late. And It Almost Always Falls To The Child To Try To Move Toward The Parent.