Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?

Women are powerful and dangerous.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

What I leave behind has a life of its own.