I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent.

I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.

"Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.

Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One took me into her family and loved me back to life. She taught me that love is not formed and families are not formed by blood. That love makes a family.

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.