The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down there they'd head for the hills.

I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.

All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.

There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making them the victims.

Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!

Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something bigger than ourselves.

It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

Of course, you’d warm up faster if you took your clothes off.

I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.