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I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

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

I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

What I've learned is you treat women right.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.