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

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you’ll be feeling what they’re feeling. If you’re separated, it’s not a hard thing to do at all.

You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are.

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