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

I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.

Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.