I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is "How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

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.

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.

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior."