Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Helping begins with listening.