[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back.

I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work.

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.

Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring!

I can feel glamorous without makeup, especially on my lips. They're naturally reddish, so I often let them go.

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.