Birth is the epicenter of women's power

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another.

Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional life.

I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honor—I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.

I'm usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.

As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.