Quotes About Courage

I've got a feisty face.

Feisty women are my calling!

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

I'm a strong fellow.

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

I remember integrating the all-white Yazoo City High School after my Black school closed its doors. Teachers sprayed me with fire extinguishers, and I carried a stick to fend off attacks from fellow students.

What's so great about playing a female lead, especially in law enforcement, is that these women do exist, and they're really quite interesting. They're fascinating.

It's cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

Everything that I was ridiculed for as a child - being too feminine or wearing a dress - has made my life fabulous now.

You can still be strong and be feminine.

Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.

I think feminism is about the spirit.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

I'm a feminist.

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me fat, calling me stupid. And it's all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.

If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.

My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.

People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

I always had a fetish for fighting big peoples. My dad put me in the ring with much bigger guys. In my first fight, I gave the guy a 14-pound advantage.