“I grew up being told to keep my problems inside. And that's what I did...” — Karine Jean-Pierre Quote

“I grew up being told to keep my problems inside. And that's what I did. But so many of my problems stemmed from thinking that my family would be better off without me.”

“Women everywhere do not have a choice. We are eviscerated when we speak up and disparaged when we don't. We have no options, no choices.”

“Being an advocate and a voice was very important to me.”

“Nobody gives a damn that I was in 'Head Of The Class,' but when they know I was Ricky in 'Better Off Dead,' they're like 'Holy crap, man! You were Ricky.' They go crazy.”

“Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.”

“One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.”