You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.