When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?

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

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.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.

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