It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

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