Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.