What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.

I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

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

What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there.