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

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.

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.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

I am doing what I love to do.

If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer