I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.

The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down there they'd head for the hills.

All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.

There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making them the victims.

Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save.

Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing")

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

A friend is a second self.

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.

The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

I schooled in the Boston area.