What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you.

Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.

This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous.

It’s a sheer-madness for a father not to see his son greater than him

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

I had a 15th club in my bag.

Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago.

An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

All I know is what I have words for.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.