Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.

I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.

There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.

Why, when men hate themselves, it’s women who take the beatings.

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

The building block of every community is family.

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.