I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.

Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.

There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.

Why, when men hate themselves, it’s women who take the beatings.

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Amazingly, my impatience didn’t speed up the procession at all.

The more things you do, the more you can do.

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.

I think I would rather want to create something new, but I really did enjoy doing that show. It was a really fun show to do.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.