Zoey Tur

“One thing I quickly discovered as a female pilot - ditch the heels!”

“I know so much about Los Angeles. I grew up here, I was born here, I loved it, and I reported on it.”

“Flying as Bob, there was always stress involved.”

“While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.”

“I was told I'd never work again, but once you come out, it's like someone turns on the lights, and your life will be different.”

“Trying to erase 53 years of being a macho aggressive guy to trying to be a woman, and this is greatest challenge of my life.”

“Television has played an important role in normalizing the experiences of gay men and lesbians in America.”

“When I saw that Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, I was dumbfounded! Why would Google get into bed with thieves? They've built a huge audience on the backs of copyright holders - and then they say I have to monitor them?”

“When you're living a lie, the scariest thing is to be alone with your thoughts.”

“Instead of doing what everybody else does and sue the city of Los Angeles, I decided I was going to run for mayor.”

“I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.”

“I think women make better pilots.”

“I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first to do overnight news.”

“I'm so much more at ease now than when I was flying as Bob. Then, I was OCD about everything, always checking and looking for things. But flying as a female is effortless. I'm still checking traffic, instruments, and the radios, but it's easier to multitask, and flying is fun.”

“I knew at a very early age, about 6 years old, that there was something different about me. But being young and not being exposed to people who had gender dysphoria, or role models that you see on TV today, I didn't know what it was.”

“I tell the truth. That's my training as a reporter.”

“There's diversity in nature, so why not the media?”

“I always felt like a fraud.”

“I came out to be on television as a person, as a woman. And this can be a great thing for my community.”

“Transgender people really are misunderstood.”