Quotes from Brooke Baldwin

What's been fascinating about shooting my series 'American Woman' is the ubiquity of a woman's experience - and no matter who you are: a rockstar, film director, mom - we all are celebrating this movement of female empowerment, but we also realize we have a long way to go.

I definitely feed off of people.

I grew up knowing my grandfather had served our country for decades in the Navy, buried in his whites in Arlington; I have family members who are veterans.

I'm sick of pundits. Don't get me wrong. I love the guests I have on every day. I love their energy and smarts and sass. But I'm sick of pundits because they don't always have their ears to the ground.

I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.

I always believe with a great day, you also have a not-great day.

I had to put in my time all through my 20s. Then I came to CNN in 2008 as a freelancer with no guarantees.

What does 'home' really mean? Is it merely geography, where you were born? Could it include straddling two continents and cultures? Or perhaps it's a place with a spiritual magnetism - a feeling toward a culture or people - that's tough to put into words?

There are often days when I've sat down in my office for hours and prepped for a show knowing, three minutes before I go on, some big crazy thing happens where everything is thrown out, and the teleprompter goes blank.

One of my early heroes was Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.

When I'm covering a story, it's not just about gathering facts, but it's gathering the human element as well.

I'm reporting on a world at war.

I'm the biggest ice cream eater you've ever met!

I've covered tornadoes and other natural disasters. I wasn't on the ground for Katrina. But as our helicopter descended toward Mexico Beach, I just saw an entire town gone. Leveled, with the exception of a condo still standing here and there.

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

I have no choice but to be 100-percent-focused. My two hours get blown up nearly every single day by breaking news.

My 2016 was basically spent covering Donald Trump and falling madly in love with James Fletcher.

This millennial generation... you guys seem so entitled.

I've never used the word 'I' in a piece in my 18 years in journalism.

It's important to stay a human, to be a journalist, to be a human covering the stories and trying as best as I can to put myself in their shoes, to be respectful, to just listen.

Having covered the crazy campaign of 2016 and seeing a lot of young women showing up, I just had this ah-ha moment. I went to my bosses and said, 'Guys, I want to make women my priority.'

When Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here.

With hard work and some good help, I eventually landed an exclusive interview with Auma Obama, President Obama's half-sister.

I got my first migraine on my first day of work in TV in 2001... it was debilitating.