I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

God’s gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

Online we have a compassion deficit

What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.

Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status.

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.