It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.

When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.

I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.

There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.

Why, when men hate themselves, it’s women who take the beatings.

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.

There's no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.