It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.

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.

I pray for grace, strength and wisdom to faithfully fulfill my calling in due time.

Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

The near impossible. If no one believed in the impossible there would be nothing left to dream about

While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.