I was born in London and lived there until I was five. We traveled a lot. But really San Diego is my hometown. It's where I went to high school.

We are more than just our bodies, but that doesn't mean we have to be shamed for them or our sexuality.

I really was more sexual than my classmates.

You're a woman, enjoy yourself, and believe that you can do things.

The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone.

A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to show it.

Any woman is sexual, absolutely.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.