My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

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

If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.