There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."

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.

If there was one advantage of the numerous lifetimes he’d been forced to endure, it was undoubtedly knowledge.

Nobody loves me but mama, and she may be jivin too.

Take my hands,” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.