"The notion that because you are a woman, you must be more sensitive or delicate is a stereotype I have fought against my whole life."

"I try to be optimistic. I think that's the only way to get through life."

"I have been called a lot of things in my life, but 'fluffy' is not one of them."

"I often said that if I had any talent in the world, it would be as an opera diva. But my voice is not up to it."

"The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked abou…"