We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model.

The past is past; what's gone on has gone on.

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.

I was neeeever a cool kid.

When you've got a teenager and a pre-teen, especially a son and a daughter, and they're going at each other at the table, all you really want is just five minutes of quiet, but sometimes I have a moment during the chaos when I think, 'Yes, this is good.'

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.