Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

Women standing up for each other is critically important.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

We can't always be the bridge. Sometimes we have to be the flooding river.

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.