Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. We cannot change anything until we accept that. I cannot do this alone. I don't love myself enough to do it alone, but I can do it if we have a pact, if I am keeping up my end of the bargain. I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I don't know if you remember, but there was a show a long time ago called 'Love, Sidney.'

A lot of the actresses who were around when I started, I don't know where they are. Comics stick around.