Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.

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.

I think the human species is very suicidal.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

Dancing in public spaces and moving your body freely in a public space is reclaiming what was taken from you when you were violated. The energy of that - you can't capture it, you can't own it. Capitalists can't buy it.It can't be sold. It can't be monetized. And that's why I think it's so powerful.

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