“I stand before you as a doormat. Oh, I mean, as a female entertainer, Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant sexism and misogyny and constant bullying and relentless abuse.”
It was 1979 and New York was a very scary place. In the first year I was held at gunpoint, raped on a rooftop with a knife digging into my throat.
And I had my apartment broken into and robbed so many times I just stopped locking the door.
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