We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.

The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

I remainMistress of mine own self and mine own soul

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

Intimacy means "into me see"!