Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others; don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .

To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

I pondered long and hard and really put off answering him, King Hussein, when it was clear that he was proposing, ... He (King Hussein) was taking a huge leap of faith in proposing we share our lives together.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.