When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

I just say that at any weight you should love your life.

When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.

There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.

I'm always for the person who speaks their mind.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

At the time of my deepest love I realized that I am the Universe.

Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

The poor are too busy working to need justice.