When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.

Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.

There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.

Why, when men hate themselves, it’s women who take the beatings.

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

That man has some seriously oversized ovaries. Can you say PMS? He braked at anyone and everyone before shoving his way outside.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.