Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

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 be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

God plants our spiritual giftings deep, so it will take years to claim them, but that gives Him time to refine His message in our hearts.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.