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I like to be treated as a lady.

I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that.

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.