"My mother's favorite remark is that she'd get a shoestring and put it in a laundry basket and say, 'This is Barbara's bathing suit!'"
"Having absolutely nothing on was more powerful to me...the people that were drawing me could be so easily intimidated by somebody who was in a position that was completely different than what they were in."
"I did some construction work.in terms of power, in a man's world, there was always this thought that a woman who operated as a hybrid seemed more powerful to me than the girly girl or the too macho woman."