Jessica Hecht

I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue.

Maybe at 87 you slow down a drop, but between 44 and 64, there is no difference.

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.