My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

I wish all men were like dogs.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.

Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.