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I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.
I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.
I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.
If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.
I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.
That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them.
Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.
New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.
I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.
It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.
I've always gotten myself overly involved in supporting other women who've not always been as supportive in return.
When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?
There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.
I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.
When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.
I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.
In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.
I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.
You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.
I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.
I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.
When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.
Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.
Kids need to be educated about sex and sexuality and if they're going to have sex, learn how to protect themselves and not get pregnant.
I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.
Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.
I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.
Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?
They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.
A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.
You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.
I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.
The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.
I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?
Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.