Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

Jewish feminists are passing away or clearing out their attics. A new scholarship of Jewish women is developing. We're at a turning point. A lot of people think the work is done making the world more egalitarian. But there's lots more work to do in terms of the glass ceiling, equitable policies and family leave. The challenge now is to move forward, to see how we can continue feminist change.

[But the ACLU argues that ending assistance to women and minorities will open the door to the discrimination that affirmative action was intended to remedy. In 1978,] The City of Los Angeles gave 2 percent of its contracts to minority and women business enterprises. Sacramento gave zero percent. Now those numbers are up to 10-15 percent, ... It (Proposition 209) is really resegregation in California.

They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.