Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down there they'd head for the hills.

The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.

All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.

There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making them the victims.

Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.

We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.

The press has become so [word missing] about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people, a tremendous disservice.

Hearing improves with PRAISE!

Life has always been a small matter with me when duty points the way

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.