You make good coffee . . . You're a slob, but you make good coffee.

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

I can't do coffee, but I can do Dr. Pepper.

It’s not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It’s not the end-all, be-all of my life.