Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Your goal must be divided into smallest measurable and visible period of time- a day, so you know exactly what to do everyday

So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.

I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The comic is still the comic.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

I drove a bus down Sunset Boulevard once, and I didn't kill anyone.

Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.