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I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

I get a lot of fan mail from girls. It's interesting because it's not just the U.S. - you get things from people all over the world. They send these postage stamps and you're like, 'Where do you live?' It's crazy. I'll get letters from the troops, too.

I have a lot of female fans.

I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me.

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.