Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.

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.

Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write.

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?