Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.

...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.

...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone.

Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task.

The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.

At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

Wasting time is when seconds, minutes and hours are passing without being converted

As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.

when there is a bit mistrust, jealousy will arise and ended with misunderstanding

Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry about her. Beyond that, she'll protect others instinctively.

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.