Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."

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.

No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can't help but hurt too.

Your life is an opportunity to question, discover, and explore.

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

You make yourself happy while talking to someone. You will cease to talk when you lose the desire to impress that person.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.

She flew like a bird, only faster.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

Love isn't lying, it's loose in a lady who lingers, saying she is lost, and choking on hello.