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

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.

My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me more sensitive to cruelty. It made me feel like I was contributing to making the world better and that I was connected to everything around me. I felt like I was part of the whole by respecting every living thing rather than using it and destroying it by living unconsciously. Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.

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 justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.