The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.

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.

Giving without expectation leads to receiving without limitation.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer, ' we invariably choose the money.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

I think that's the thing. I don't want to date a celebrity. I want to date a normal person. So I'm looking for a normal person.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.