We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

Open your mind to a new pattern of thinking and your life will drastically change for the better.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

No new world without a new language.

Don't judge my problems when you don't know my purpose. I'm only struggling now so I can pull you through later.

Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

Nobody cares that you're smart and nobody cares that your kids don't have bruises.

Think about what a user is going to type.

I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts.

All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.