There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

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.

To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Does Martin Luther King really want his birthday commercialized?

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.

Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.