When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other.

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.