I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.