Activist

Just because you've been divorced doesn't mean you're not still a family.

So many people dread Thanksgiving because they find it traumatic or uncomfortable. My suggestion is to come with a couple of great questions for the table.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

When kids help cook, even if its just shredding the herbs or stirring the pot, they eat more and they eat better.

Anytime anyone spoofs anything related to the issue of global warming is good, because to me it's like, okay, gets the word out.

Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.

Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.

And by the way, the United States is the biggest cause in global warming pollution. And we're doing the least about it. I find that personally embarrassing.

Vote for candidates who care about these issues, and hold these candidates accountable. I don't care what party; I'm past that point. I care whether they are concerned about the energy security of this country.

They are very different in terms of the solution. Where 'An Inconvenient Truth,' you really need countries to cooperate and sacrifice and figure out a solution, with 'Fed Up' you can leave the theater and you can be empowered that very night by cooking dinner in your very own kitchen.

School lunch should be made fresh on the premises every day. Our children deserve that respect.

Fear of failure, what is that? It would never occur to me.

Once people learn what global warming means, they start to pay attention.

That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.

Kids need rituals. They need the security of them, the bonding time of them.

Growing up, I didn't have great family dinners. We sat down every night, and my mother cooked food, but it was always about who was going to leave the table crying first.

In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.

If you come to my house for a dinner party, it looks like a Toyota dealership, because every single person I know drives a hybrid now.

Family dinner is how we civilize our children. It is how we get them into good habits like drinking water with supper, saying please and thank you, learning how to listen and take turns. It's how we pass on our family histories.

I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.