It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.

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.

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.

God has given me life

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.

It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.