Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.