"The tapestry of existence shows us that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men."

"I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running."

"Gay marriage is going to happen. It must."

"Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything)."

"As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then."

"We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first."

"My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me."