For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian.

Womanhood is a wonderful thing. In womankind we find the mothers of the race.There is no man so great, nor none sunk so low, but once he lay a helpless, innocent babe in a woman's arms and was dependent on her love and care for his existence. It is woman who rocks the cradle of the world and holds the first affections of mankind. She possesses a power beyond that of a king on his throne.
...Womanhood stands for all that is pure and clean and noble. She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that a woman should be.

Many times happiness is just around the corner, on that corner that we never dare to turn.

We thought it would make her less endearing, but it did exactly the opposite, ... The women in the audience loved [the line], and I would have thought the reverse.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

I thought, 'Well, why don't I get some of the women who I've had open up for me before and some artists that I really admire and respect. Let's ask them to do a few shows.'