Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.

Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.

Have a nice, cuntlovin' day.

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.