Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.