I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.

Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.