There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.

Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.

I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.

Why, when men hate themselves, it’s women who take the beatings.

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

We learn better when learning is a game.

I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.

I never, ever in my life tried to be outrageous. I've only ever tried to say what was truly on my mind and not pull punches about it.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

I have only one goal in golf - to leave it with my sanity.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

I am completely focused on being strong, riding fast, and enjoying myself. With the new generation of riders, only the chronometer counts. I need to be faster than them on track.