A biography for Ellen Barkinhasn’t been written yet.
“I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.”
“I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.”
“There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.”
“I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.”
“You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.”