Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.