I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

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 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.

fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women. ... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clothes, and we've got cash.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.