I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.

I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.

I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.