Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.