"Beauty isn't just creating pretty things, it's creating things that are real."

“I don't have to live in technicolor dreams anymore. I can live every day."

"I'm Dora, I'll die as Dora...If I don't have anything else, I have this."

“Love yourself. It's so easy. Just love yourself.”

“I have to be happy in the now.”

“You have to spend time to figure yourself out again....I'm inventing a whole new human.”

"First and foremost...my favorite thing in the world to do, is to entertain.”

"We’re bigger than our bodies, there’s more to us than our bodies, and that’s why we feel limited by them."

"The whole time I'm in my role, I'm Geri, and I walk around with my head held high as Geri.”

"How tragic that the things we do...leave us so vulnerable if society is on the fence about our actions."

"Ruffles, lace...petticoats, stockings...were forbidden fruit that I was now smuggling from their garden."

"I wanted so badly to succeed at being feminine that I lost my ability to act naturally."

"When you fantasize about your life in a new role, you focus on the glamorous and fail to ponder the mundane."