Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this way?! Me too!" Hanging out is consciousness-raising.

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.