Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.