“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my makeup box.”

“I'de luv to kiss ya but I just washed my hair.”

“I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.”

“My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.”

“I never wished I’d been a man. I always felt like a woman and wanted to be a woman. I wanted to be fulfilled professionally and personally, as a woman. There are some who might say I had penis envy, but I only had penis admiration.”

“I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.”

“You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.”