I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

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.

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people

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.