I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.

I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.