I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

...Because I have a a serious medical condition. Gabe shook his head ruefully. It's called foot-in-mouth disease.

Ending a problem is not a solution for that Problem.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

I am an American aquarium drinker.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.