“I understand why people think we're gay. There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it – how can you be this close without it being sexual?”

— Oprah Winfrey

About her friend Gayle King, in "Oprah: Gayle and I Are Not Gay" in People (16 July 2006) http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1215402,00.html

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