Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

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

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

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.