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.

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.

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."

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he was lost in thought.

Your day usually follows the direction of the corners of your mouth. So SMILE.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.