If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

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

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

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

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.

I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.