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I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.

I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn't really excel in anything particularly. But I was happy with who I was.

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.