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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I'll still be fly.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.