Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.

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 stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.

I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

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.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.