You also discuss a part of your life when you lost a number of friends to H.I.V. You don’t watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the ’60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing. At this point, I don’t think it’s time for any of us to sit down about anything. Your good friend Bette Midler was criticized on the internet for tweeting “Women are the n-word of the world,” a reference to a quote by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. We’re all on edge, and we all make mistakes, but when you’re a Bette Midler or a Jenifer Lewis, you’re forgiven.

Source: New York Times October 30, 2018 09:00 UTC