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.

To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

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

What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.

Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.

We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say statistics have escalated, I wonder if, that is true or are we just hearing about things now that we didn't hear about before.

I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.