I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.

I feel very passionate that we need CAT scanners in every country in the world. There's not a CAT scanner in all of eastern Congo. People don't use the word "cancer" because they don't get diagnosed. They just die.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

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.

What I'm really interested in is freedom.

In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and protecting our Muslim brothers and sisters [and] every marginalized person under threat and siege. At the same time, we have to be planning and envisioning where we're going. How we build moments and movements, how we come up with the vision we want of a progressive left - that's what comes in after.