Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

Female comics cannot dress provocatively on stage.

I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

I came to Turin above all for my family, because at Manchester, they had inserted a clause in our agreement which changed the situation considerably. It really annoyed me.

Mama, you know, poor baby, she'd had her family all finished: four daughters and a couple of sons, and suddenly, I arrived in her midlife on Christmas Eve 1922.

I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.