I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

It will feel boring when you're bingeing.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart.

And I dare to believe that it really is. I dare to bet on us again.

All is changed, changed utterlyA terrible beauty is born

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

I'm a geek to the bone.

If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.