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

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.

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.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

We live longerbut less preciselyand in shorter sentences.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

I'm a minimalist. I like things to look very clean, I like clean lines. I like everything to be tidy and have space.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.