I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.

If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

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.

Between the combination of Judeo-Christian religious 'be good be good be good' and Capitalist 'something's wrong with you, buy this' and the parental upbringing, which is 'you're wrong, you're not thin enough, you're not smart enough' I mean, hello! We don't have a shot.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a colostomy bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized by past abuse, it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."