The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.

Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.