Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

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.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.