My Favorite Holiday Is My Birthday-it's Very

Honestly, I Have S Much Respect For Single Moms Or Anybody Who Finds Themselves A Single Mother, But To Even Choose To Be Single Mother Is Just So Courageous To Me. It Is Such A Hard Job To Raise A Child And Be Everything To That Child Without A Partner. It's Just Admirable And Courageous And Brave And Every Other Valiant Word I Can Think Of. I Don't Know If I Could Do It On My Own.

It Was Easy To Blame Other People For Treating Me In Ways I Didn't Like, But Now I Was Seeing That I Was The One At Fault. The Only Way You Can Be Mistreated Is By Allowing Yourself To Be Mistreated, And That Was Something I Did Over And Over Again. Somehow, I Needed To Find That Glimmer Of Self-respect, Buried Deep Inside, That Would Allow Me To Say: I Am Never Going To Let That Happen To Me Again. I Needed To Learn How To Stand Up For Myself In A Different Way, But I Didn't Know How.

He Wouldn't Talk To Me For Two Months. I Was Like, 'what An Ass**le.' Actors Are Used To Getting Their Way And To Treating Women Like Objects. "[on Wesley Snipes After She Reports He Made Unreturned Passes At Her]

It's A Shame To Call Somebody A 'diva' Simply Because They Work Harder Than Everybody Else.

I Was Always Very Comfortable With Who I Was. Confident. I’ve Never Looked At [my Body] In A Negative Way.