I rarely felt or noticed any real divide between girls and boys when I was growing up. Maybe it was because I was so involved in sports and competed with the boys. Maybe it was my mom and dad, who constantly instilled confidence in me and never made me feel as though there were boy activities and girl activities.

I don't really have many regrets. I did miss a lot of the events in the days leading up to my sister's wedding because I was at a U17 camp. There were moments like that growing up when I felt like I focused too much on soccer. But that's probably the reason I am where I am today.

I was the biggest tomboy growing up. Now I love playing with a full face of makeup.

I could be a model for one night. But I'm also a professional soccer player, and I like to be taken seriously on the field.

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.