Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in their numbers and strength in a unified way. That is exactly what we have to overcome.

I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence, racial violence, environmental violence - where we are dominating and not cooperating .

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.