"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."

"This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me."

"I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get."

"When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother."

"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."

"I enjoy what I'm able to give my family."

"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."

"I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family."