One project I did follow through on and which, consequently, was empowering and inspiring for me was directing a play in high school. I directed it, produced it, built the sets, and designed the programs on my father's computer. It was so much fun, and the experience awakened me to the knowledge that I could do anything I set my mind to. I believe this of everyone. I believe from the bottom of my heart that there is nothing we as human beings, and especially we as women, cannot tackle.
Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
One of the most important things that we tried to communicate is that girls have to learn to do what they love. That's a cliche they hear all the time, but it's something that so many girls don't understand. Because I'm really doing something that is completely new to me, so I found that I was very uncertain, maybe overly modest in many situations, because I don't have a publishing background. But I knew what I liked, and what people I knew were responding to. And at some point, you have to go with that.