To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

Music is the strongest form of magic.

After a full belly all is poetry.

Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.

You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest

Even if you don't see the results of your planting, just keep Planting your Love. Your Patience. Your Perseverance. Your Faith.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.