Quotes from Zoey Tur

When you're living a lie, the scariest thing is to be alone with your thoughts.

I was told I'd never work again, but once you come out, it's like someone turns on the lights, and your life will be different.

Instead of doing what everybody else does and sue the city of Los Angeles, I decided I was going to run for mayor.

One thing I quickly discovered as a female pilot - ditch the heels!

I think women make better pilots.

If someone asks about sexual reassignment surgery, you are supposed to say, 'Why are we talking about that?' But I am a post-op transsexual. And I am a reporter. If you can explain and talk about it, you demystify it. And if you demystify it, it's not an issue.

I know the way this city works. We have one of the most corrupt cities in the country. The reason it's so corrupt is because everybody thinks it's honest, and it's not. You know the truth when you go to Chicago. The difference here in Los Angeles is you believe it's honest - and that's dangerous.

While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.

I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first to do overnight news.

There's diversity in nature, so why not the media?

I always felt like a fraud.

I came out to be on television as a person, as a woman. And this can be a great thing for my community.

In covering breaking news, there's no better way than using a helicopter.

I know so much about Los Angeles. I grew up here, I was born here, I loved it, and I reported on it.

I tell the truth. That's my training as a reporter.

That's violence, terrible violence, to tell a woman to sit down and shut up.

I'm so much more at ease now than when I was flying as Bob. Then, I was OCD about everything, always checking and looking for things. But flying as a female is effortless. I'm still checking traffic, instruments, and the radios, but it's easier to multitask, and flying is fun.

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

If what the transgender movement seeks is acceptance, association with the Kardashian circus is the last thing it needs.

I am not covering stories as a transgender reporter. I'm a reporter who is transgender. Otherwise, it would be like having a black reporter only cover stories about blacks or a Hispanic reporter covering stories about Hispanics.

2014 was a good year for transgender rights.

When I was going through transition, I didn't push it on everyone.

I was told I shouldn't transition, and if I did, I'd never work again. That really bothered me.

We filed suit against YouTube before the Google purchase. At the time I went after YouTube, I thought it was a small company ripping off our copyrights.