We're all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

A politician has an axe to grindWith which he aims to chop off half your mind.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.