The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.

It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten into us in a way where it is so undeniable that there is nothing to prove. Do you know what I mean? That we are so in our feminist skin, so to speak, that we are that world now.

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

What I would say to young women is: Pay attention to the real. Pay attention to what you're really thirsting for. What do you really want? And I think that's much harder to decipher in a culture that has no interest in it. What interests me is, are we going to wake in time? Are human beings going to wake up to ourselves, to the incredible poverty that's on this planet, to what we're doing to the earth, to what we're doing to women, to what we're doing to boys? That's what's important.

Geography does not define you - love does.