The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way