If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

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.

When someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, "This is who you are. You're okay in this lady, and you're a great, healthy, lovable and loving person." I try to accept myself.

I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."