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I'm not squeamish.

I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.