When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.

This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.