There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I like the energy of live performance.

From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.