The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman.

In the end, by having a point of view, by taking a stand for things you believe in, you're ultimately always going to offend people. That's good. It's certainly more important to take a stand on some thing and offend people, than to be careful all of your life and have everyone approve of what you do. Or, as my psychiatrist likes to say, better to live one year as a tiger than 100 as a sheep.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it...

Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.