I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.