I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

I grew up in Tennessee. I loved to wear full glam. I used to want to wear flash lashes every single day. I remember wearing them once and someone was like, 'Are you wearing false lashes?' I felt embarrassed. In the U.S., it's perceived as though you're trying too hard.

I grew up in Tennessee, where no one was really hairy, and with sisters who were so beautiful - my little sister was a pageant girl. But me, I was this weird-looking hairy child. I had more than just a unibrow; I feel like I had a mustache, a goatee.

Few women would prefer an unemployed and rudderless man to an ambitious and successful one, all other things being even roughly equal; and few men would choose an obese, unattractive, and dull woman over a shapely, beautiful, sharp one.

As writer Elisabeth Elliot phrased it, "The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman."1

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories...

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

She wore a wide-brimmed black hat and men's trousers, and she carried a satchel of books to ensure that if she should finish one volume she would be handily prepared with the next.