- Miriam Nessler: He's wearing jeans and a windbreaker, and the hat. The red hat. You know the one. The MAGA hat, in New York City. Two blocks from the public theater and Cooper Union, where Lincoln spoke, and Larry Kramer! That's like me going to Nebraska wearing a yarmulke waving a rainbow flag while reading a book!
- Clarissa Montgomery: Take a deep, healing breath and imagine that you're not even on Twitter or Facebook or Xanax.
- Sharynn Tarrows: I told her, "I've never met anyone like you." And she says, "What, do you mean a strong, independent woman?" And I said, "No, with so much Kleenex in your purse." And she started coughing, and I guess I looked worried? She just said, "Well, let's hope it's cancer."
- Clarissa Montgomery: I want you to close your eyes and envision a beautiful hillside, lush with wildflowers and overlooking a peaceful, undisturbed valley. You're like Julie Andrews singing "The Sound of Music" with her arms open wide and never dreaming she'd soon be trafficked by the Catholic Church into becoming an unpaid nanny under a Nazi regime and ultimately marrying an employer twice her age in a scenario that could more rightly be termed #EdelweissMeToo, #NoneofMyFavoriteThings and #SoonYiVonTrapp.