Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.

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.

Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!

Love did not die. I still create your image to my heart every solitary night.

Better a little with righteousnessthan much gain with injustice.

I think the most important thing in life is your health. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

I remember the first time I fell in love. That rush is just overwhelming and you don't think there's ever going to be anything like it.

If you're not cheating, you're not trying!

Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.