I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

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.

A true sage is simple like a child.

My feet were keeping in time with the music, but my heart was pounding out a different rhythm altogether.

With audacity one can undertake anything.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.

Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.