I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
I thought well you might see curves there but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.
When I was at drama school I wanted to change the world and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991 I was confident that women would play an ever more important role but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat thoughts are no different than anything else.
Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance and there is no more resistance.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
So the first thing that I thought about was 'How is this car going to handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that then I just kind of sat back.
In high school during marathon phone conversations cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were or at least who I thought they might become.
There were times when I thought I would never own a car.
I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more because that's when I thought you know I'm gonna end up a car wreck.
It's a tricky place especially the last sector. I wasn't happy in practice. I wasn't happy with the car and I wasn't happy with myself. But I always thought there was more in the car.
One morning about four o'clock I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines because I always had a car thing.
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.