I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

Yes, and you should question your government.

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.