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

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

I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

We have to know people who are outside of our own circle, we have to reach out to people we don't know, we have to protect people who are in tremendous danger. And we also have to not get burned out and let our fear and anxiety and depression sink us. So there's lots of things we have to do right now!

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

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