I just write what I want to write.

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you.

Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

He kissed and held her like it was the last time, but then again, he always did that, because there had always been that possibility of him losing her.

I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.